pptponfig centos 5.4

pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

Hi

I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)

You remember before I was having problems with installation because http
or yum or rpm would lock up over the web.  I had to do this in sysctl:

   net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
   net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072

and then a sysctl -p.  Now everything works web wise.  But when I try to
install pptpconfig with yum it tells me libxml and libglade.so.0 are
dependencies.  libxml is no problem.  I installed a libglade and did a
symvolic link from the libglade.so (.7 I believe) to libglade.so.0 but
it still tells me libglade.so.0 is required.  I downloaded
libglade-0.17-19.i386.rpm and tried to install but it had a whole lot
more dependencies.

I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5

  1. Is there a different install method?
  2. Should I be using
rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm

or a different location to get the repository?


Tony

p.s. yes I can do it manually, have done it before, but it is a pain
having to edit all those files like /etc/ppp/peers/XXXXX and pap-secrets
and chap-secrets, etc.

Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[Jan Just Keijser]

tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)
>
> You remember before I was having problems with installation because http
> or yum or rpm would lock up over the web.  I had to do this in sysctl:
>
>    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
>    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
>
> and then a sysctl -p.  Now everything works web wise.  But when I try to
> install pptpconfig with yum it tells me libxml and libglade.so.0 are
> dependencies.  libxml is no problem.  I installed a libglade and did a
> symvolic link from the libglade.so (.7 I believe) to libglade.so.0 but
> it still tells me libglade.so.0 is required.  I downloaded
> libglade-0.17-19.i386.rpm and tried to install but it had a whole lot
> more dependencies.
>
> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
>
>   1. Is there a different install method?
>   2. Should I be using
> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>
> or a different location to get the repository?
>
>   
I'd use the rpmforge version (1.7.2)

rpmforge.repo:
[rpmforge]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/rpmforge
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

then do a
  yum install pptp

HTH,

JJK

Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

Some kind of error:

Install      1 Package(s)         
Update       1 Package(s)         
Remove       0 Package(s)         

Total size: 76 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6


GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag'


-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Just Keijser [mailto:jan.just.keijser@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:38 AM
To: tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
Cc: 'ppp Linux'
Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)
>
> You remember before I was having problems with installation because http
> or yum or rpm would lock up over the web.  I had to do this in sysctl:
>
>    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
>    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
>
> and then a sysctl -p.  Now everything works web wise.  But when I try to
> install pptpconfig with yum it tells me libxml and libglade.so.0 are
> dependencies.  libxml is no problem.  I installed a libglade and did a
> symvolic link from the libglade.so (.7 I believe) to libglade.so.0 but
> it still tells me libglade.so.0 is required.  I downloaded
> libglade-0.17-19.i386.rpm and tried to install but it had a whole lot
> more dependencies.
>
> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
>
>   1. Is there a different install method?
>   2. Should I be using
> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>
> or a different location to get the repository?
>
>   
I'd use the rpmforge version (1.7.2)

rpmforge.repo:
[rpmforge]
name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/rpmforge
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

then do a
  yum install pptp

HTH,

JJK


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Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

I did and it installs, but now it keeps closing with a read 0.
We have a Linksys router and I suspect it may not be allowing
pptp or gre or whatever is needed?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Just Keijser [mailto:jan.just.keijser@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:51 AM
To: tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
Cc: 'ppp Linux'
Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Some kind of error:
>
> Install      1 Package(s)         
> Update       1 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)         
>
> Total size: 76 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: y
> Downloading Packages:
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6
>
>
> GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 5] OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag'
>
>   
whoops, you need to install the rpmforge repo key as well... or, if you
trust the site, set
  gpgcheck=0
in the repo file and try again.

HTH,

JJK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Just Keijser [mailto:jan.just.keijser@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 08:38 AM
> To: tony.chamberlain@lemko.com
> Cc: 'ppp Linux'
> Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4
>
> tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)
>>
>> You remember before I was having problems with installation because http
>> or yum or rpm would lock up over the web.  I had to do this in sysctl:
>>
>>    net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 174760
>>    net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 131072
>>
>> and then a sysctl -p.  Now everything works web wise.  But when I try to
>> install pptpconfig with yum it tells me libxml and libglade.so.0 are
>> dependencies.  libxml is no problem.  I installed a libglade and did a
>> symvolic link from the libglade.so (.7 I believe) to libglade.so.0 but
>> it still tells me libglade.so.0 is required.  I downloaded
>> libglade-0.17-19.i386.rpm and tried to install but it had a whole lot
>> more dependencies.
>>
>> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
>>
>>   1. Is there a different install method?
>>   2. Should I be using
>> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>>
>> or a different location to get the repository?
>>
>>   
>>     
> I'd use the rpmforge version (1.7.2)
>
> rpmforge.repo:
> [rpmforge]
> name = RHEL $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
> baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/rpmforge
> mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
> #mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
> enabled = 1
> protect = 0
> gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
> gpgcheck = 1
>
> then do a
>   yum install pptp
>
> HTH,
>
> JJK
>
>
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Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[James Cameron]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:22:38PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)

My name is on it.  The regret lingers on.  "PHP-GTK, why?", I ask
myself.

> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
> 
>   1. Is there a different install method?
>   2. Should I be using
> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
> 
> or a different location to get the repository?

I don't know.

Alternatives, should you still require them ...

1.  pptpsetup is included in pptp, and is a non-GUI for achieving the
same thing as pptpconfig,

2.  Network Manager has a pptp plugin which does the same and more.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

Yeah I did pptpsetup -whatever (i put all the parameters in and called the
connection "hill"  Then I did "pppd call hill".  That connected, set up
my IP and routes and I had ppp connections for a few minutes (5 or so) but 
then it would disconnect again

  

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cameron [mailto:quozl@laptop.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 03:19 PM
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:22:38PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)

My name is on it.  The regret lingers on.  "PHP-GTK, why?", I ask
myself.

> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
> 
>   1. Is there a different install method?
>   2. Should I be using
> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
> 
> or a different location to get the repository?

I don't know.

Alternatives, should you still require them ...

1.  pptpsetup is included in pptp, and is a non-GUI for achieving the
same thing as pptpconfig,

2.  Network Manager has a pptp plugin which does the same and more.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:09:19AM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Yeah I did pptpsetup -whatever (i put all the parameters in and called
> the connection "hill"  Then I did "pppd call hill".  That connected,
> set up my IP and routes and I had ppp connections for a few minutes (5
> or so) but then it would disconnect again

common symptom.  further diagnosis would involve pppd debug logs most
likely.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

Using the Windows pptp when I connect it allows the remote host to set
my routes for the PPTP vpn.  Is there a way to do this in Linux too?
If I want to make a general tool to connect I would like to use it in
/etc/ppp/ip-up.local.  For instance, in one connection I want to do

     ip route replace 10.0.0.0/8 dev ppp0

but in another connection I want to do

     ip route replace 192.168.0.0/24 dev ppp0

I'd like to make a generic thing that would always set the correct route
(best thing to let the VPN server set my routes).  I suppose I could make
an interface and look up the tunnel in a text file and return the routes
but that is an extra step.

Tony


-----Original Message-----
From: James Cameron [mailto:quozl@laptop.org]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 04:19 PM
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:22:38PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> I remember one of the James's wrote pptpconfig ;-)

My name is on it.  The regret lingers on.  "PHP-GTK, why?", I ask
myself.

> I guess my main questions about centos 5.4 vs. 4.5
> 
>   1. Is there a different install method?
>   2. Should I be using
> rpm -Uvh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/fc6/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
> 
> or a different location to get the repository?

I don't know.

Alternatives, should you still require them ...

1.  pptpsetup is included in pptp, and is a non-GUI for achieving the
same thing as pptpconfig,

2.  Network Manager has a pptp plugin which does the same and more.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[James Cameron]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:05:26PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Using the Windows pptp when I connect it allows the remote host to set
> my routes for the PPTP vpn.

Is there a protocol specification for how this is achieved?

> Is there a way to do this in Linux too?

Not to my knowledge.  It would imply a communication of routing policy
over the PPP link, and some way to know if it is trusted.

A common way to achieve this is to use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts on the
client side that recognise the tunnel in some way.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[tony.chamberlain]

That is what I do, James.  ip-up.lcaol but for each server I have to change
it.  I know openvpn will set the routes for you.  Maybe the windows thing
just did a default route?

-----Original Message-----
From: James Cameron [mailto:quozl@laptop.org]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 04:46 PM
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:05:26PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> Using the Windows pptp when I connect it allows the remote host to set
> my routes for the PPTP vpn.

Is there a protocol specification for how this is achieved?

> Is there a way to do this in Linux too?

Not to my knowledge.  It would imply a communication of routing policy
over the PPP link, and some way to know if it is trusted.

A common way to achieve this is to use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts on the
client side that recognise the tunnel in some way.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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Re: pptponfig centos 5.4

[James Cameron]

Then I don't understand what you are asking, sorry.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:21:15AM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> That is what I do, James.  ip-up.lcaol but for each server I have to change
> it.  I know openvpn will set the routes for you.  Maybe the windows thing
> just did a default route?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Cameron [mailto:quozl@laptop.org]
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 04:46 PM
> To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: pptponfig centos 5.4
> 
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:05:26PM +0000, tony.chamberlain@lemko.com wrote:
> > Using the Windows pptp when I connect it allows the remote host to set
> > my routes for the PPTP vpn.
> 
> Is there a protocol specification for how this is achieved?
> 
> > Is there a way to do this in Linux too?
> 
> Not to my knowledge.  It would imply a communication of routing policy
> over the PPP link, and some way to know if it is trusted.
> 
> A common way to achieve this is to use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts on the
> client side that recognise the tunnel in some way.
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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