vpn using pptpclient in FreeBSD

krad kraduk at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 13:47:00 UTC 2011


On 30 August 2011 22:51, Marco Beishuizen <mbeis at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a vpn connection to the university library by using
> pptpclient. In other OS's this takes around 10 seconds, but in FreeBSD this
> seems very difficult to do, and I've no idea why. It looks like there is a
> connection made, but after a minute or two it just disconnects and still
> unable to access the vpn.
>
> My ppp.conf is:
> EUR:
>  set authname "xxxx at xxxx.xx"
>  set authkey "xxxxxxx"
>  set timeout 0
>  set ifaddr 0 0
>  add vpn-eur-pptp.eur.nl HISADDR
>  disable ipv6cp
>
> The messages log says:
> Jun  2 22:12:16 yokozuna pptp[40950]: anon log[main:pptp.c:314]: The
> synchronous pptp option is NOT activated
> Jun  2 22:12:16 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]*
> *: Sent control packet type is 1 'Start-Control-Connection-**Request'
> Jun  2 22:12:16 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:**739]:
> Received Start Control Connection Reply
> Jun  2 22:12:16 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:**773]:
> Client connection established.
> Jun  2 22:12:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]*
> *: Sent control packet type is 7 'Outgoing-Call-Request'
> Jun  2 22:12:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:**858]:
> Received Outgoing Call Reply.
> Jun  2 22:12:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_disp:pptp_ctrl.c:**897]:
> Outgoing call established (call ID 0, peer's call ID 58282).
> Jun  2 22:12:17 yokozuna kernel: tun0: link state changed to UP
> Jun  2 22:13:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[logecho:pptp_ctrl.c:677]:
> Echo Request received.
> Jun  2 22:13:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]*
> *: Sent control packet type is 6 'Echo-Reply'
> Jun  2 22:15:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[pptp_handle_timer:pptp_**ctrl.c:1050]:
> closing control connection due to missing echo reply
> Jun  2 22:15:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]*
> *: Sent control packet type is 12 'Call-Clear-Request'
> Jun  2 22:15:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.*
> *c:430]: Closing PPTP connection
> Jun  2 22:15:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[ctrlp_rep:pptp_ctrl.c:251]*
> *: Sent control packet type is 3 'Stop-Control-Connection-**Request'
> Jun  2 22:15:17 yokozuna pptp[40955]: anon log[call_callback:pptp_**callmgr.c:79]:
> Closing connection (call state)
> Jun  2 22:15:47 yokozuna pptp[40956]: anon warn[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:**204]:
> short read (0): No buffer space available
> Jun  2 22:15:47 yokozuna kernel: tun0: link state changed to DOWN
>
> After a lot of searching and googling I never found the answer. Has anyone
> here succeeded in setting up a working pptp vpn connection?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Marco
>
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have you tried mpd? I always found pptpclient a bit prone to issues

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pppoa.html


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