On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 08:34:42PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:38 PM 1/11/2003, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > >That bug has been fixed, in sys/netgraph/ng_pptpgre.c revisions > >1.26 and 1.2.2.13. > > Excellent! In that case, the only other thing I need to be able > to use it just about everywhere is to be able to trigger shell commands > at various points in the scripts, and get output back into variables. > (Right now, the scripting language really doesn't have variables and > doesn't seem to be able to access environment variables.) The reason > I need this is that some of my systems do account timing and expiration. > I need to be able to determine when an account expires and to let the > system know that a user has logged on and logged off. (I can hack this > with the !fg and !bg commands in userland PPP, but can't do it with > mpd.) > > --Brett > > P.S. -- I'm still wondering why userland PPP doesn't seem to pass GRE. > Surely I'm not the first person to run into this?
I ran into the same problem using mpd and it proved to be caused by the blocking of gre traffic. My WinXP laptop connects fine to the mpd server when inside the LAN, or through ISP X, but fails to connect when going through ISP Y. The server never received the response from the client and quitted after ~10 sec. The admins from ISP Y informed me that they block gre traffic, which I must admit puzzled me, since I thought that gre packets were not transmitted so soon in the communication sequence. I never got around to reading the pptp rfc to sort it out, though... Panagiotis Astithas Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, Greece To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
