From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cameron Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:21:40 +0000 Subject: Re: ppp interface Message-Id: <20070417042140.GK5181@hp.com> List-Id: References: <10028998.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <10028998.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:17:17PM -0700, maimam wrote: > I am having a hard time getting PPTP to work in a lab environemnt. Works for me every time. I last checked it yesterday with the release of pptpd 1.3.4. > since i dont have a modem i dont have a ppp interface. pptp tries to use > ppp0 as a tunnel interface. This is entirely normal. If you did have a modem interface, pppd would use ppp1 as the tunnel interface. > [root@localhost ppp]# pppd pty 'pptp 1.1.1.101 --nolaunchpppd' call pptp1 > Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 > Child process pptp 1.1.1.101 --nolaunchpppd (pid 26619) terminated with > signal 15 This suggests that pptp has failed with a SIGTERM. There is no sign there of any pppd problem. > Although i have pppd in the processes i dont have any ppp interface. pppd > version 2.4.2. What should i do? Contact the PPTP Client mailing list. http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/contact.phtml Have you tried OpenVPN yet? -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/