Topic: VPN problems

[guest22]

Hi,

trying to setup a VPN with SME 7.4 over the internet. Result is:

Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pptpd[17618]: CTRL: Client xx.xx.xx.xx control connection started
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pptpd[17618]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Plugin radius.so loaded.
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: RADIUS plugin initialized.
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 kernel: divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device ppp0
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Mar 11 13:13:52 supportserver01 udevd[1147]: udev done!
Mar 11 13:14:22 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Modem hangup
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 pptpd[17618]: CTRL: Reaping child PPP[17619]
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Connection terminated.
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 kernel: divert: no divert_blk to free, ppp0 not ethernet
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: Exit.
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 pptpd[17618]: CTRL: Client xx.xx.xx.xx control connection finished
Mar 11 13:14:24 supportserver01 udevd[1147]: udev done!

Any hints as to where to start troubleshooting please?

TIA
guest

[Stefano]

searching the forums for "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests" could be a good start, as the same question as been posted many times

[guest22]

searching the forums for "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests" could be a good start, as the same question as been posted many times

I know A few of them were mine. Still an issue tho....

Thanks anyway!

guest

[byte]

Mar 11 13:14:22 supportserver01 pppd[17619]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

These are normally due to the GRE protocol (47) being blocked or not correctly forwarded due to your firewall, make sure your firewall are forwarding the correct ports/protocols.

Have a look at this:

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#lcp_timeout

[guest22]

Indeed, opening up GRE port 47 (tcp/udp) resolved the issue.

Thanks all.

guest