From: James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VPN disconnect
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:41:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205004127.GB3718@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <W66896262654641233767149@webmail29>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:11:33PM -0500, James Carlson wrote:
> Note that this just tells pppd to request a particular address.
> There's no telling whether the peer understands what to do with such a
> request, or if it can or will honor it. Some servers may refuse to
> negotiate at all under such conditions, causing the link to fail.
> (Bugs are unfortunately common.)
On the peer side, pptpd on Linux in the default configuration gives the
IP address to pppd on command line, and so the IP address is usually
non-negotiable. I don't know about other peers.
--
James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/
HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/
PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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2009-02-04 17:05 VPN disconnect tony.chamberlain
2009-02-04 17:11 ` James Carlson
2009-02-05 0:41 ` James Cameron [this message]
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