I have a situation where I need to connect an OpenBSD box to a MS Windows PPTP server (yep, I know it is not secure, but in this case I have no choice in the matter).
After looking around the net I found myself at http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/. So I downloaded, complied and installed the program and tried to connect to my test box. (Also complied a custom kernel using the GENERIC files with only the pseudo-device GRE line commented out.) There aren't any OpenBSD specific instructions on the site, but reading the generic docs, as well as the docs for NetBSD, the PPTP man pages, etc. I think I have enough to get started. However when I try to connect up I get nothing but a list of errors (connection timed out, could not open connection, etc.) I know the path from my OpenBSD box to the test server is correct, because if I plug my Win2k laptop in it is able to successfully connect to the server. As far as I can tell the problem is a lack of MPPE support either in the Kernel or in PPP. However I cannot find any information on how to get this support onto an OpenBSD system. Has anyone gotten PPTP-client to work on an OpenBSD box and if yes, would you be kind enough to send me some steps or any other info on how you did it? Thanks, Peter
