Topic: PPTP wont encrypt

[kamikaze]

I know vpn has been covered over and over but I really can't find info on this problem in the newsgroup:
Connecting to e-smith with pptp from my windows box with encryption enabled won't work. If I disabled required encryption in the windows vpn client, the connection works fine (but un-encrypted of course wich is pointless for vpn.)
Can anyone help ?
Here's a copy of the messages logfile ::

intranet pptpd[7303]: MGR: Launching /usr/sbin/pptpctrl to handle client
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: local address = 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: remote address = 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: pppd speed = 460800
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: pppd options file = /etc/ppp/options.pptpd
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Client 240.X.X.X control connection started
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 1)
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Made a START CTRL CONN RPLY packet
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: I wrote 156 bytes to the client.
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 7)
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: 0 min_bps, 1525 max_bps, 32 window size
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Made a OUT CALL RPLY packet
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE)
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: pty_fd = 5
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: tty_fd = 6
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7304]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): Connection speed = 460800
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7304]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): local address = 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7304]: CTRL (PPPD Launcher): remote address = 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: I wrote 32 bytes to the client.
Jun 23 02:21:11 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Sent packet to client
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 15)
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Got a SET LINK INFO packet with standard ACCMs
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: Using interface ppp0
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 15)
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Ignored a SET LINK INFO packet with real ACCMs!
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-18
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-18
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication succeeded for admin
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-18
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: local  IP address 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: remote IP address 10.X.X.X
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet e-smith[7338]: Processing event: ip-up.pptpd ppp0 /dev/pts/0 460800 10.X.X.X 10.X.X.X pptpd
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Received PPTP Control Message (type: 15)
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Got a SET LINK INFO packet with standard ACCMs
Jun 23 02:21:12 intranet pppd[7304]: LCP terminated by peer (^VM-98U^@Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pppd[7304]: Connection terminated.
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pppd[7304]: Connect time 0.0 minutes.
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pppd[7304]: Sent 689 bytes, received 1710 bytes.
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pppd[7304]: Exit.
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pptpd[7303]: Error reading from pppd: Input/output error
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: GRE read or PTY write failed (gre,pty)=(6,5)
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Client 240.X.X.X control connection finished
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pptpd[7303]: CTRL: Exiting now
Jun 23 02:21:15 intranet pptpd[5669]: MGR: Reaped child 7303

[Franck]

kamikaze wrote:
>
> I know vpn has been covered over and over but I really can't
> find info on this problem in the newsgroup:
> Connecting to e-smith with pptp from my windows box with
> encryption enabled won't work.
e-smith PPTP server only supports 128 bits encryption. If you're using win2k, ME or 98, you'll have to apply a microsoft update to support 128 bits encryption (Sorry, I can't give you an URL to get this update).

[Lazo]

does not encrypt or does not compress (from what I saw on your report)?? first try to disable compresion on your client before turning off encryption!! that could be a problem too!!

[kamikaze]

Compression is off.
And my options.pptp includes nodeflate anyways.
Devil Linux also forces 128bit and it works perfectly as my current vpn server.
This is the last barrier preventing me to switch to e-smith as my main server
What puzzles me most is that "modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-108" line in the log file ! What is that module ?