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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 13:03:22 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To:        "Sonne, Byron" <bsonne@mtsinai.on.ca>
Cc:        "'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: mpd errors when trying to connect using MS pptp client
Message-ID:  <20010306130322.A68601@mx.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <A789F9F553FCD4118C670008C791D6DA30B325@mshmail5.mtsinai.toronto.on.ca>; from bsonne@mtsinai.on.ca on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:50:10PM -0500
References:  <A789F9F553FCD4118C670008C791D6DA30B325@mshmail5.mtsinai.toronto.on.ca>

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Can you ping the host you're talking to?  The log lines describe
options in a single LCP request being sent, which apparently
cannot be sent because there is no route for the target IP addr.

Barney Wolff

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 12:50:10PM -0500, Sonne, Byron wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> When I try to connect to my FreeBSD 4.2 box (running mpd as a pptp server)
> using the Win2k pptp client, I get the following error "Disconnected. Error
> 619: The specified port is not connected".
> 
> If I then look in my mpd.log, I see the following occur twice, here is one
> of them:
> 
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd: [pptp] LCP: SendConfigReq #21
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd:  ACFCOMP
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd:  PROTOCOMP
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd:  MRU 1500
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd:  MAGICNUM e76a24e1
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd:  AUTHPROTO CHAP MSOFT
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd: [pptp] error writing len 27 frame to bypass: No
> route to host
> Mar  6 12:43:33 cleric mpd: pptp0-0: ignoring SetLinkInfo
> 
> Of major interest to me is the second last line that contains the "No route
> to host" comment. If they can start the handshake to the point where we can
> get an error, then it seems to me there has to be some kind of route. I
> thought perhaps my firewall rules were dropping a short packet generated in
> this exchange, but tweaking the rules didn't seem to make any difference
> (perhaps I didn't tweak them correctly ?)
> 
> Can someone shed some more light on what this is trying to tell me? I'm
> hoping this will help point me in the right direction so I can figure out
> how to fix it.
> 
> Regards,
> Byron Sonne
> 
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