Re: PPTP setup

[Lorenzo Rossi <condor_rl@libero.it>]

Hi Jamin,

Thanks for your suggestions...
I have patched my kernel, followed the instructions at the link you
suggested, and now I'm near to have it working...:)

I have stil a problem concerning the authentication on the win2k server.
The server use: EAP, 128bit encryption and MSCHAPv2..I can not
anderstand very well the problem..but I'm investigating on it..


Bye
Lorenzo


Il lun, 2003-12-29 alle 17:24, Jamin W. Collins ha scritto:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 11:10:50AM +0100, Lorenzo Rossi wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to setup a pptp client to connect to a win2k pptp server
> > in my office.
> > 
> > I use Debian Testing, i have installed the following packages:
> > 
> > kernel-patch-mppe
> > pptp-linux
> > 
> > APT installed also other packages, but I suppose it has installed all
> > necessary packeages.
> > 
> > I have seen in "/usr/src/ kernel-patches/all/mppe/", 2 files:
> > 
> > linux-2.2.19-openssl-0.9.5-mppe.patch.gz
> > linux-2.4.20-openssl-0.9.6b-mppe.patch.gz
> > 
> > But I do not know how to patch the kernel and obviously how to use
> > this files...
> 
> Easiest (debian) way I've found is using make-kpkg from the
> kernel-package package.  Then I normally copy an existing config from a
> Debian kernel-image package for the same version of the kernel source
> I'm compiling into the the extracted kernel source as ".config".  Then
> do the following:
> 
>    export PATCH_THE_KERNEL="YES" # case is important
>    make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version $VER --revision $REV \
>       --us --uc kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image
> 
> Replace $VER with whatever you'd like to see after the kernel version
> and $REV with a number to indicate a packaging revision.  This command
> will use the existing kernel configuration (.config) and prompt for any
> new entries. The targets "kernel_image kernel_headers modules_image"
> will result in a kernel image and headers package along with a package
> for any module source you have installed and extracted.
> 
> You'll probably need the following packages beyond what you already
> have:
> 
>    kernel-package
>    kernel-source-2.4.xx
> 
> And to get an existing Debian kernel config:
> 
>    kernel-image-2.4.xx-1-yy
> 
> xx above is the minor revision of the kernel (eg. 21, 22, or 23) and yy
> is the specific architecture (eg. 686, k7)
> 
> As far as using PPTP once you have everything patched, I recommend
> following the instructions at this site:
> 
>    http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml
> 
> And looking at the documentation there, it would appear that they have
> a repository with pre-patched packages.
> 
> -- 
> Jamin W. Collins
> 
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>