Re: pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> If I'm reading this correctly, you've stated that the connection must
> use MPPE (because of the 'require-mppe-128' command in
> /etc/ppp/peers/ufreevpn), but the remote end has replied that MPPE is
> not available. Because of this, pppd terminated the connection.
>
> I would suggest confirming the settings with your VPN provider.
> Either you don't need MPPE, or they need to turn on support for it at
> their end.
First, thank you for the time in reading all that output.
I re-read the instructions on the VPN provider's site and
they do require that to be enabled.
I think the mixup may be on what I am sending as
credentials. Since the web site tells all callers to use the
following credentials, I will quote them as anybody can go there
and see the same things so I am not breaking any confidences:
PPTP Server: ukvpn.ufreevpn.com
Username: ufreevpn.com
Password: free
The important line in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets then reads:
ufreevpn.com ukvpn.ufreevpn.com free
When running the test, There is much that only tells you
I sent something and got something back. Obviously, one of those
long keys is based on wrong information or it would simply work
An interesting thing I notice in the output just before
all the black smoke, screams, blood and mayhem
is the following pair of long lines with the first coming from
ukvpn.ufreevpn.com.
rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x87 <a0b990d5ad2c7d7704006cbea2820124>, name = "pptpd"]
sent [CHAP Response id=0x87 <8c5f07f43be4aa20e96287ace081d368000000000000000054c28032245f15a84b4706847c8bcc6c9b17c7a8639b7cfb00>, name = "ufreevpn"]
The remote server sent the name "ptpd". I sent "ufreevpn"
and I am wondering if they should be the same?
A couple of lines of binary later, the authentication
fails.
Man! I love authentication trouble. It's the ultimate
case of 20-thousand moving parts. One's broken. Go figure.
Martin
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