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From: Philip Craig <philipc@snapgear.com>
Subject: Re: PPTP connection tracking
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:31:38 +1000
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Ilguiz Latypov wrote:
> I changed pptpctrl.c to issue pseudo-unique Call ID's for every incoming
> TCP connection.  Each connection spawns a process.
> 
> Is this modification reasonable?  I will submit it to pptpd maintainer as
> well.

I came across this problem in my testing as well.  Assigning
a random ID is not really correct, but it's the easiest thing
to do to get it working.  It's better than always using 0 at
least.

Regards,
Phil

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