ports/190332: net/pptpclient fails with "/bin/ip: not found"

Grant D. Watson grant_watson at yahoo.com
Wed May 28 07:30:00 UTC 2014


>Number:         190332
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       net/pptpclient fails with "/bin/ip: not found"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 28 07:30:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Grant D. Watson
>Release:        10.0-RELEASE-p2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD dweorh 10.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Apr 29 17:06:01 UTC 2014     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
Having given the appropriate definition in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, I run the pptp command to create a tunnel.  I get an error about failing to find the Linux ip command and the tunnel is not created:

root at dweorh:/home/gdwatson # pptp 1.2.3.4 VPNName
/bin/ip: not found
/bin/ip: not found

ifconfig reveals no tunnel.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install pptpclient, put PPTP VPN connection information in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, and run pptp with IP address and name of the connection.
>Fix:
The upstream web site advertises Free/Net/Open-BSD support, so my (perhaps naive) expectation is that there's a build problem somewhere and not an undeclared upstream dependency on Linux-only network utilities.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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