Topic: V7RC1 & pptp

[p-jones]

I have a situation where I have set up a remote server and allowed 3 pptp conections to it. Connecting three times is just fine. On the fourth attempt it authenticates but does not establish a connection.

The logs show that the connections have been exceeded and that the network device cannot obtain an IP. The DHCP server range is from .10 to .40 . There are only abt 12 devices on the network of which 8 rely on DHCP. The balance are printers/plotters with fixed ip's outside the scope of the DHCP server.

Anyone had similiar experiences or got any thoughts where I should start looking ??

I have logged it in the bug tracker with a log excerpt.

Thanks
Peter

[JonB]

I would have thought it is doing exactly what it is supposed to. You say your PPTP is set for 3 connections and you can make 3 connections but the 4th is denied. Thats what it is supposed to do.

Set the number od PPTP connections to 4

Jon

[pfloor]

There are a couple of bugs with pptp in rc1 concerning the release of pptp connections.  This has been fixed but I don't beleive the patch has been released yet.  You can read about the bugs here:

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1064

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1073

You can pick up the updated RPM here:

http://bugs.contribs.org/attachment.cgi?id=196

Paul

[p-jones]

Thanks Paul. Sounds like my problem.  I picked up the rpm and tried to install it but got an error.

[root@gulfserv1 /]# rpm -Uvh e-smith-pptpd*.rpm
error: File not found by glob: e-smith-pptpd-1[1].12.0-02.noarch.rpm

What is the correct useage ??
Thanks Peter

[pfloor]

You must be on Windows  

For some reason IE sometimes adds that [1] to the package name and causes your error.  Rename the file removing the [1] and it should work.  Check the md5 on the package to make sure it is right, it should be:

eb4ebd3de239fb57a2f7c1c36926944f  e-smith-pptpd-1.12.0-02.noarch.rpm

Paul

[p-jones]

Thanks Paul. That did the trick. Will see what happens now.

Cheers
Peter