G'day Arne, I'm the PPTP Client[1] project release engineer. As far as I know, Debian has not yet packaged a version of pppd with mppe support. (I'm not a Debian developer, and I haven't downloaded the sid pppd package to verify this). I worked around this lack by compiling pppd myself from sources[2], and using that pppd with pptp. I can continue to use the Debian pppd for my other connections, because I can start the mppe capable pppd and have it invoke pptp via the pty option, a new feature with 1.1. On my PPTP Client Diagnosis HOWTO page[3] you can find a cheap trick to check to see if the pppd you have has mppe support. References: 1. PPTP Client project web page http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ 2. How to install PPTP Client on Debian http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml (while this says it was last tested on potato, I've since upgraded to woody on that machine) 3. Checking pppd for MPPE support http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#mppe_pppd -- James Cameron (james.cameron@hp.com) http://quozl.linux.org.au/ (or) http://quozl.netrek.org/
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