Topic: PPTP troubles on 6.0b3 (mppe error)

[chris snow]

Does anyone know what the following error could mean?  (/var/log/messages).

sme kernel: mppe_compress[0]: osize too small! (have: 1400 need: 1404)

TIA.

Chris

[Guck Puppy]

Search the forum.

mppe_compress is a good keyword.

G

[chris snow]

Thanks for the reply.

I've just had a look through the links and found no solution.  The crazy thing is that I have had pptp running great on a 6.0b3.  That is why I recommended it to my customer in this instance.  

The working solution was a new install however, this one is an upgrade from 5.6b4.  Both are working in gateway mode.  The other one is also setup for PPPoA with a PCI modem, this one is working via another ethernet gateway (my customers network provider) and a standard ethernet card  - maybe that could make a difference???

I am going to try my luck with the IPSEC contribs and a Safenet Softremote client.  Hopefully that will work.

Thanks again,

Chris

[chris snow]

I've just completed a test install of sme 6.0b3, this time a fresh install and not an upgrade. The configuration is very similar to the previous machine that was upgraded from 5.6.  

PPTP is working great on the fresh install.  Could it be that there is a problem with the upgrade process?