Topic: VPN Died

[Lloyd Keen]

I've had VPN running succesfully for a while but for some reason I can't connect now. Here is the output of the logfiles:

This is from a working connection:
Feb 14 10:43:08 gabba pppd[3789]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
Feb 14 10:43:08 gabba pppd[3789]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 14 10:43:08 gabba pppd[3789]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
Feb 14 10:43:09 gabba pppd[3789]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication succeeded for lloyd
Feb 14 10:43:09 gabba pppd[3789]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
Feb 14 10:43:09 gabba pppd[3789]: local  IP address 192.168.15.1
Feb 14 10:43:09 gabba pppd[3789]: remote IP address 192.168.15.247
Feb 14 10:43:10 gabba e-smith[3811]: Processing event: ip-up.pptpd ppp0 /dev/pts/0 460800 192.168.15.1 192.168.15.247 pptpd
Feb 14 10:43:10 gabba pppd[3789]: MPPE 128 bit, stateless compression enabled
Feb 14 10:43:10 gabba pppd[3789]: stateless MPPE enforced
Feb 14 10:44:07 gabba pptpd[3788]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)

This is after it died:
Feb 14 18:47:19 gabba pppd[1953]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
Feb 14 18:47:19 gabba pppd[1953]: Using interface ppp0
Feb 14 18:47:19 gabba pppd[1953]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pppd[1953]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pppd[1953]: Connection terminated.
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pppd[1953]: Exit.
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pptpd[1952]: Error reading from pppd: Input/output error
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pptpd[1952]: CTRL: GRE read or PTY write failed (gre,pty)=(6,5)
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pptpd[1952]: CTRL: Client 144.132.xxx.xxx control connection finished
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pptpd[1952]: CTRL: Exiting now
Feb 14 18:47:49 gabba pptpd[1947]: MGR: Reaped child 1952

Notice the line about Error reading from pppd..... Anyone have any ideas why this would have stopped working or what can be done to repair it?

[Dean Mumby]

I dont know what caused this but I have a similar problem in that I can connect and less than 30 seconds later I get disconnected and there is a message about 2 packets being out of sync.

What version of windows are you using

Regards
Dean

[Lloyd Keen]

I'm using ME. I've come across your problem before but my problem is that I've been able to maintain VPN connections for as long as I want. I made a connection at 10am and then at 6pm tried again and it kicked me out with an error 650. I hadn't changed anything on the ME box so I tried rebooting the server and rebooting ME still no luck. I even tried system restore to take my system back a week or so without luck. It's got me beat.

[Robert Heaton]

Hi,

I have a VPN working with no problems, I'm using XP PRO, and had to disable the Data Encryption on the VPN Connection Properties.

I'm also using SME 5.1.2,

What version of e-smith/sme server are you using?


Kind regards,
Rob.

[Ryan]

We are using XP Pro with ht esame settings and we continue to get error 800. I suspect it may be port related but have no way of knowing.

Any suggestions?
Ryan