After my VPN connection is established, I get eratic messages from the SME server such as these:
Jan 6 12:24:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:24:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:24:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:24:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:24:48 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:25:12 strategiezibm last message repeated 12 times
Jan 6 12:25:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:25:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:25:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:25:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:25:18 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:25:18 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:26:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:26:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:26:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:26:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:26:24 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:26:27 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:27:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:27:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:27:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:27:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:27:37 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:27:49 strategiezibm last message repeated 19 times
Jan 6 12:28:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:28:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:28:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:28:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:29:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:29:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:29:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:29:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:30:02 strategiezibm sshd[1867]: Received disconnect from 67.114.233.114: 11: Disconnect requested by Windows SSH Client.
Jan 6 12:30:02 strategiezibm sshd(pam_unix)[1867]: session closed for user admin
Jan 6 12:30:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:30:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:30:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:30:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:30:40 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:30:46 strategiezibm last message repeated 4 times
Jan 6 12:31:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:31:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:31:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:31:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:31:46 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:32:14 strategiezibm last message repeated 12 times
Jan 6 12:32:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:32:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:32:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:32:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:32:26 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:32:30 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:33:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:33:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:33:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:33:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:33:28 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:33:59 strategiezibm last message repeated 15 times
Jan 6 12:34:08 strategiezibm last message repeated 3 times
Jan 6 12:34:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:34:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:34:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:34:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:34:21 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:34:58 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:35:01 strategiezibm last message repeated 3 times
Jan 6 12:35:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:35:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:35:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:35:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:36:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:36:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:36:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:36:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:37:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:37:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:37:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:37:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jan 6 12:37:28 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: GRE: Discarding for incorrect call
Jan 6 12:37:59 strategiezibm last message repeated 24 times
Jan 6 12:38:14 strategiezibm last message repeated 2 times
Jan 6 12:38:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 5)
Jan 6 12:38:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Made a ECHO RPLY packet
Jan 6 12:38:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: I wrote 20 bytes to the client.
Jan 6 12:38:16 strategiezibm pptpd[2304]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Is this normal or does it look like there may be a configuration error?
Intermitently, I am not able to ping any addresses and most of the time I need to restart the connection.
Vince