I've spent a day working on this and I've run out of ideas so I would appreciate any help. I have been running pptpd for 9 months very happily on RedHat 7.2 using kernel 2.4.9-31mppe and pptpd 1.1.2. I checked evrything was working yesterday. I then upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-19.7.x, ppp, applied the kernel-mppe patch, upgraded to ppp-mppe-2.4.1-7 and applied the latest RedHat updates. I also upgraded pptpd to 1.1.3. If I make a VPN connection over the local network then everything works. If I attempt to make a connection over the Internet then it just times out and there is absolutely nothing relevant in /var/log/messages (I'm running pptpd with the -d option). I have tried dropping the firewall completely and still nothing. Obviously I have done something stupid during the upgrade. Any suggestions as to what is wrong or how I trouble shoot the problem?
Martin Liddle
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paste in your /etc/pptpd.conf, /etc/ppp/options.pptpd and /etc/modules.conf. Also a snippet from /var/log/messages (both from a successful internal connection and a failed external connection) might be useful.
Best to mail it to the Poptop Mailinglist: poptop-server@lists.sourceforge.net
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I've spent a day working on this and I've run out of ideas so I would appreciate any help. I have been running pptpd for 9 months very happily on RedHat 7.2 using kernel 2.4.9-31mppe and pptpd 1.1.2. I checked evrything was working yesterday. I then upgraded the kernel to 2.4.18-19.7.x, ppp, applied the kernel-mppe patch, upgraded to ppp-mppe-2.4.1-7 and applied the latest RedHat updates. I also upgraded pptpd to 1.1.3. If I make a VPN connection over the local network then everything works. If I attempt to make a connection over the Internet then it just times out and there is absolutely nothing relevant in /var/log/messages (I'm running pptpd with the -d option). I have tried dropping the firewall completely and still nothing. Obviously I have done something stupid during the upgrade. Any suggestions as to what is wrong or how I trouble shoot the problem?
Martin Liddle
paste in your /etc/pptpd.conf, /etc/ppp/options.pptpd and /etc/modules.conf. Also a snippet from /var/log/messages (both from a successful internal connection and a failed external connection) might be useful.
Best to mail it to the Poptop Mailinglist: poptop-server@lists.sourceforge.net