Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-16 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1150377525 past the epoch, anthony wrote: > I am running Debian Etch Kernel 2.6.15-1-486 on an x22 thinkpad I'm not running that kernel, but I just fetched linux-image-2.6.15-1-486_2.6.15-8_i386.deb and took a look $ grep MPPE boot/config-2.6.15-1-486 CONFIG_PPP_MPPE=m $ find . -name \*mppe\*k

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-16 Thread anthony
Thanks for the help. I think I was making a typo initially I managed to re-compile my 2.6.15 kernel with the mppe modules and now the tunnel works. Something must be wrong with my pptpconfig config still as I can authenticate and ping but not reach any of the services on the office LAN, like my mai

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread George Borisov
anthony wrote: > > I am running Debian Etch Kernel 2.6.15-1-486 on an x22 thinkpad > > 'MPPE (Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption) support requires an additionnal > kernel module, provided by package kernel-patch-mppe or in linux kernel > version 2.6.15 and above.' > > The support should be buil

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Bob McGowan
This may mean you need to run: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade I have seen similar errors when my local copies of Package files get out of date with respect to the repository. Bob anthony wrote: Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before ,

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/15/06, anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before , and so far failing at the first stage. when I try to get [...] Does your kernel not come with some sort of mppe module that you can modprobe? -- Michael A.

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread anthony
Ok, that makes sense from what I've been reading. I've not re-compiled my kernel before , and so far failing at the first stage. when  I try to get thinking:/# apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.16Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... DoneW: Couldn't stat source package list http

Re: VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread Rick Reynolds
anthony wrote: For some time I've been trying to use pptp-linux to connect as a client to my office VPN (don't ask me what flavour VPN server this is running the Network admin won't tell me) According to this howto until kernel 2.6.15 you needed a patch to run it correctly http://pptpclien

VPN / PPTP

2006-06-15 Thread anthony
For some time I've been trying to use pptp-linux to connect as a client to my office VPN  (don't ask me what flavour VPN server this is running the Network admin won't tell me)According to this howto until kernel 2.6.15 you needed a patch to run it correctly http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto