Re: Doubt about PPTP plugin

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 18:28 +0100, Luís Miguel dos Reis Oliveira e Silva
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using the latest networkmanager and plugins avaliable from ubuntu
> karmic repositories and it has being working great so far. But I
> noticed something that I don't think is right...
> 
> I'm using pptp plugin in order to connect to a VPN and the connection
> works great, but if I execute "ifconfig ppp0" (the device created by
> NM), i see that "inet addr" is *equal* to "P-t-P". In daemon.log,
> "Internal IP4 Address" and "Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address" are
> different. The "inet addr" that appears in ifconfig (and also "P-t-P")
> is the same as "Internal IP4 Address".
> 
> Is this normal?

Yeah, it should be valid; nm-pptp uses the options that PPP passes it,
so I'd expect that this address came directly from PPP.  Is it causing
any problems?

Dan

> Example:
> ifconfig ppp0
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
>           inet addr:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa  P-t-P:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1400  Metric:1
>           RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
>           RX bytes:143 (143.0 B)  TX bytes:131 (131.0 B)
> 
> 
> NetworkManager: <info>  VPN Gateway: 0.0.0.0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Tunnel Device: ppp0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Address: aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa
> NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Prefix: 32
> NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address:
> bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb
> NetworkManager: <info>  Maximum Segment Size (MSS): 0
> NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> NetworkManager: <info>  Internal IP4 DNS: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> NetworkManager: <info>  DNS Domain: '(none)'
> NetworkManager: <info>  Login Banner:
> NetworkManager: <info>  -----------------------------------------
> NetworkManager: <info>  (null)
> NetworkManager: <info>  -----------------------------------------
> 
> Thanks,
> Luís Silva 
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