newbie problems mpd server on freebsd

Bernard T. Higonnet bth at higonnet.net
Tue Jul 10 19:52:09 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 10 July 2007 21:37, Henri Hennebert wrote:

Please ignore this question. I only sent to the list by mistake. It is 
replaced by the question "mpd isn't listening on 1723 because he can't get it 
thhough it isn't used"

I am sorry.
Bernard T. Higonnet

> Bernard T. Higonnet wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to set up a VPN server on a freebsd machine so Windows clients can
> > use it.
> >
> > I am using FreeBSD 6.1 and mpd 3.18 from the ports collection.
> >
> > My basic problem is that mpd does not do anything and doesn't complain
> > about anything, so I'm not making much progress.
> >
> > I run mpd with "mpd -k -s higvpn"
> >
> > Here are various facts and/or symptoms
> >
> > 1) all the show commands show there isn't anything (bundles, links, etc.
> > etc.) 2) netstat says nobody's listening on 1723
> > 3) Windows VPN's produce error 678 ("There was no answer") which seems
> > consonant with (2)
> > 4) I can't find any trace info anywhere
> > 5) there is no firewall issue because the freebsd vpn server and Windows
> > machine are both on my own little network (192.168.0) and neither machine
> > has one for the time being
> >
> >
> > In an effort to embarrass myself here is my mpd.conf file
> >
> > default:
> > load pptp1
> > load pptp2
> >
> > pptp1:
> > new -i ng0 pptp1 pptp1
> > load common
> >
> > pptp2:
> > new -i ng1 pptp2 pptp2
> > load common
> >
> > common:
> > set iface disable on-demand
> > set iface enable proxy-arp
> > set iface idle 0
> > set iface enable tcpmssfix
> > set bundle enable multilink
> > set link enable acfcomp protocomp
> > set link no pap chap
> > set link enable chap
> > set link keep-alive 10 60
> > set ipcp yes vjcomp
> > set ipcp ranges 82.238.41.134/32 192.168.0.201/24
>
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> what is this address ?
>
> I would, as in your previous post put this statment after each new -i ngX.
>
> > set ipcp dns 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220
> > #set ipcp nbns 172.20.1.1 172.20.1.8
> > #set bundle enable compression
> > #set ccp yes mppc
> > #set ccp yes mpp-e40
> > #set ccp yes mpp-e128
> > #set ccp yes mpp-stateless
>
> what about mdp.links ?
>
> Henri
>
> > TIA
> > Bernard Higonnet
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