RE: [Poptop-server] Does it really work?

[Ravi V. <rav...@te...>]

>See also How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
<http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

Would you like to write "How To Respond The Dumb Way."? You will do a
fine job.

>> 9167053261
>Number not recognised.
>From your signature block, it is very easy to find your phone number,
your building and your mail stop. If you have problem with people's
details in the postings, please stop bragging about yourself first. That
would be a "smart" thing to do.

Free and Open Source Software movement was started by giants like
Kernighan Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Unfortunately, inadequate pygmies
like yourself joined the movement. You have trivial little to show and
absurdly inflated arrogance.

In future, if you are impatient with somebody's question on this list,
please keep your mouth shut and do not respond "The Dumb Way". This is a
public list.

-----Original Message-----
From: pop...@li...
[mailto:pop...@li...] On Behalf Of James
Cameron
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:33 PM
To: pop...@li...
Subject: Re: [Poptop-server] Does it really work?


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:44:07PM -0700, Ravi Verma wrote:
> "GRE: read from PTY failed: error = Input/output error".  There is no 
> way to find out as to why I am getting this error.

Technical correction; there may be no way that you know how to find it
out, but I and others know a few ways;

a) enable debug and dump options in PPP and examine the PPP log,
b) use strace on the pptpd binary (you would need expertise),
c) look for reports of the error in the mailing list archives,
d) look for mentions of the error in the documentation.

For instance, many mailing list postings in the past few months have
revealed that this error occurs if PPP fails to start because of
mis-typed options in the options files.  You would have found them with
a search of the mailing list.

<http://poptop.sourceforge.net/>
<http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=44827>
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8250>
Search, This Mailing List, Input/output error ... lots of matches.

Documentation mentions it too.  The PPTP client Diagnosis HOWTO, while
it really covers the client rather than the server, covers the same
general area of PPP and PPTP interfacing, and has a section on the error
"Input/output error", where it says (and I wrote this) "pppd was started
by pptp but was unable to operate, and so terminated quickly. pptp tried
to read data from pppd but found none. There are many reasons why pppd
could have failed, but the most likely are configuration file errors."

<http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-diagnosis.phtml#read_io_error>

> My question to the group is,  is there anyone who has been able to 
> connect to a poptop server using Microsoft Windows VPN client?

Yes, lots of people have.
The mailing list archives also confirms this; no need to believe me.

> 9167053261

Number not recognised.

See also How To Ask Questions The Smart Way.
<http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>

-- 
James Cameron                         http://quozl.netrek.org/
HP Open Source, Volunteer             http://opensource.hp.com/
PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/


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