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

[Hugo L. <hu...@gm...>]

The tunnel definition is right. Using the "pon" command the tunnel come up
manually without problem.

I think the problem with Sarge and later procedure is that ppp port is
trying to come up before the eth0 port is ready.


Hugo

El ene. 24, 2017 3:10, "James Cameron" <qu...@la...> escribió:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 01:57:58PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I've put this step back into the instructions after testing it.  There
> were no problems.
>
> I've also added Network Manager instructions.
>
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml
>
> > > 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.
>
> Check that you are passing the IP address or host name to the pptp
> program.  In the configuring-by-hand instructions, that's the pty
> option in the /etc/ppp/peers/$TUNNEL file.
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>