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Authored by: mbartosh on Sep 08, '02 10:37:07PM

A couple of people have emailed me asking how I got vpnd working. I should have posted this earlier, because it's not obvious and took me a couple hours to figure out.

This is my post from the omnigroup macosx-admin list:

To get it to work I had to create /etc/ppp/options and put in a seperate allow-ip statement for all of my internal addresses (I tested with 3). You'll then start to receive an error that says something like :

noname pppd[491]: PPTP error when reading header for outgoing_call_request : Undefined error: 0


...knowing very little about pptp, I used google, which gave me no answer.

After some trial and error I found that if I removed nodetach from

/etc/ppp/pptp_service


everything worked.



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Authored by: jfanelli on Sep 09, '02 10:50:37AM

could you provide the contents of your /etc/ppp/options file? Also, how did you test this, X server -> X server, or did you use a windows client? I get nothing but authentication errors in my log. How are you setting up authentication and providing credentials when you connect?



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Authored by: dhardman on Sep 17, '02 12:53:10PM

OK, I'm a little lost on this one. I've been playing with it for a few hours now and am at a wall...

I commented out the nodetach option, and added a few things to the "options" file, but I don't know what I do, or do not need. Any chance you could post a copy of your "options" file to get me started??



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