Re: [pptp-devel] Setting PPTP client on Debian Jessie

[James C. <qu...@la...>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:36:22PM -0300, Hugo wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 10:21 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> 
>     On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:10:19PM -0300, Hugo wrote:
>     > ... [1]http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml
>     >
>     > The problem is that on point 9 "To have the tunnel started on system boot"
>     > there is no instructions for Debian Jessie.
> 
>     You would have had to look at the list of Debian release names and
>     deduce that Debian Jessie matches the condition "Debian Sarge and
>     later".
> 
>     I'm not sure I want to keep adding release names.  So I shall remove
>     the old information.
> 
> I've tried the Sarge instructions and it didn't connect.

Thanks for letting me know, I've removed that step of the
instructions.  Let me know if you find out how to make it
automatically connect.

> Configuring the PPTP client as for Debian Sarge and later the following line in
> is logged in /var/log/ppp-connect-errors
> "anon fatal[get_ip_address:pptp.c:437]: getaddrinfo(): Name or service not
> known"
> 
> This log entry appears any time the networking service is started.

You might try Network Manager instead; it has a pptp plugin package.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/