From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Carlson Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:06:05 +0000 Subject: Re: Banyan Vines Message-Id: <18699.701.972121.302773@gargle.gargle.HOWL> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org tony.chamberlain@lemko.com writes: > Especially since the VPN had been working (with mmpe or is it mppe?) for > 6 or 7 months. > > Could it be hackers? Possible, but unlikely. They'd have to be faking the PPTP headers but then falling down on the encryption portion. Why bother? It's not even disruptive, let alone a serious threat, and there are obviously much better things in the world to attack. Even sending out random TCP RST packets to snipe away connections is a worse thing to do, and it's far simpler. My money would be split on two bets: a bug in MPPE or a high underlying packet loss/reordering rate. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W