RE: problem with pptp plugin

["Trey Nolen" <support internetpro net>]

>>On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:44 -0500, Trey Nolen wrote:
>> I do a lot of work with PPTP VPNs.  I have over 100 on my workstation. I
>> had upgraded to NM .7 for some of the features it had, but it had a lot
>> of problems that were showstoppers for me.  So, I reverted back to m
>
>What sorts of issues did you have with the 0.7 plugin?

The first thing was that I had over 100 existing connections that didn't
come over with the upgrade to .7. I can recreate them, though, so that
wasn't too bad in of itself.

The biggest problem I had was that it seemed that only about 50% of my
connections would work.  It seemed that if they didn't work the first time
(for whatever reason - password wrong, username wrong, config error, etc),
they would NEVER work. Even after the issue was corrected.  On some of the
ones that wouldn't connect I couldn't determine a reason.  However, those
same connections work with the .6.6 version.  This was a showstopper because
I had no way of connecting to those nets.

Another issue that was an annoyance was that the connections were not
alphabetized on the config page.  They are on the menu where you choose the
one you are connecting to, but on the config page, they stayed in the order
they were entered. This becomes an issue when you have as many connections
as I do.

Frequently, when I entered a new connection, it would not show up on the
list of available connections on the pull down menu.  I would have to go and
re-edit the connection and re-save it (sometimes multiple times) to get it
to show up.

I would like to add that it would be nice to get some more detail when a
connection doesn't work.  This isn't something .7 specific, because .6.x has
the same issue.  When a connection doesn't work, sometimes I have to revert
to a Windows machine to see an error code so that I can troubleshoot the
issue.


Thanks.

Trey Nolen