Topic: Experimental PPPT over ADSL packages

[Charlie Brady]

I have made a set of packages available that may help our friends in
France and Belgium who must set up PPTP to use their ADSL connections.

The two required RPMs can be found in my contrib area:

ftp://ftp.e-smith.org/pub/e-smith/contrib/charlieb/RPMS/.

The RPMs required are:

noarch/noarch/e-smith-pptp-adsl-0.1-1.noarch.rpm
i386/pptp-adsl-1.0.2-1es.i386.rpm

To activate these RPMs, you need to first configure the username and
password to be used for the PPTP access:

/sbin/e-smith/config set DialupUserAccount 'xxxxxx'
/sbin/e-smith/config set DialupUserPassword 'yyyyyyy'


then configure the system for dedicated mode - this configures the
ethernet interface. When you reboot your system it might connect
successfully to your supplier.

Warning: this is a work-in-progress alpha release. It comes with no
warranty whatsover. It hasn't even been tested.

These packages will only work for PPTP over ADSL systems with the server
located at 10.0.0.138. Please let me know if you encounter a system which
is configured differently.

I'd like to thank a number of people who have sent me information and
software and pointers to other software which I've tried to distill down
to a bare miminum. If this works, the credit goes to them - if it doesn't,
I'll take the blame

I'd especially like to thank:

Franck PIERRE (Perso)
Hans-Cees Speel
Ulysse

If you try this out, be sure to let me know whether it works or not for
you. And of course, don't use it on a critical or important server.

  Charlie Brady                         charlieb@e-smith.com
  http://www.e-smith.org (development)  http://www.e-smith.com
  Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000  Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739

[hanscees]

I live in the netherlands. But that is besides the point. Did you include the patch needed for pptp in the netherlands?

greetings

hc

[Yves LAVANANT]

Well, I think few things didn't work...

The RPM depends on pptp-linux which do not exist. The --nodeps is needed. I use pptp-adsl-fr in my configuration.
In dedicated mode, a default gateway is needed. It seems to be a problem when the link comes up (even with the "defaultroute" in /etc/ppp/options.pptp). The defaultroute stays on the gateway define in /etc/sysconfig/network.
In /etc/e-smith/events/actions/conf-pptp-startup, on the makelink line, pptp and adsl are inverse (2 times).

In the pptp-adsl (-fr), the traceroute command on peer IP address in /etc/rc.d/init.d/pptp-adsl (to test that the link is up) doesn't work for me. I don't understand why (ping works).

Thanks a lot for your work...