Re: pptpd problems
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to set up pptpd on a woody system to enable MS clients to
> connect. I wanted to enable the ssl-mppe patch. Generally I needed to
> patch the kernel a bit, and to patch the ppp package (patching pppd with
> ppp-2.4.1-openssl-0.9.6-mppe-patch.gz was not entirely trivial, as I also
> needed to remove one of the patches of the original debian package - patch
> 003 (bppc or something similar)). I must say, though, that applying
> patches to packages sees to involve a bit less black magic than applying
> patches to RPM packages.
>
> I got an error message about not being able to load module
> 'char-major-108' . I saw that there is an alias of 'char-major-108' to
> 'ppp_generic'. However, I could not figure out what 'ppp_generic' is.
> further aliasing 'ppp_generic' to 'ppp' seems to have allowed this module
> to load, but I'm not really sure that this is a smart move.
>
> I'm currently trying to figure out exactly what I need to write in the
> pptpd_options file and how I need to configure the clients.
>
[syslog snipped]
> What bothers me here is that I can't see anything from pppd in the logs. I have
> 'debug' set in pptpd-options . Even if I run 'pppd debug' (as root') I get
> a couple of lines of garbage, but I see nothing in this log. Yet the man
> page claims that pppd debugging goes to syslog as deamon.debug . What am I
> doing wrong here?
Sorry, I needed to read README.Debian to see that ppd logging is logged as
local2 , so currently my syslog entry has 'local2,daemon.=debug'
I needed some more messing (it turns out some things weren't installed
properly) but pptp now works. I'll just have to see how to fit it into the
packet-filtering rules...
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Tzafrir Cohen
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