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Re: Doubt about PPTP plugin

Hello,

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:24 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: 
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

Acording to network manager log (daemon.log) it receives "Internal IP4 Address" (masked as aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa) and "Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address" (masked as bbb.bbb.bbb.bbb), which are different. But nevertheless, the data reported by ifconfig ppp0 is "inet addr:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa  P-t-P:aaa.aaa.aaa.aaa" (these two are the same and equal to "Internal IP4 Address"). Isn't this a little strange? Shouldn't the "P-t-P" reported by ifconfig ppp0 be the same as the "Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address" that appears in daemon.log?

Everything works ok, at least on the ppp connection I use, but I still think is strange... I'm just trying to learn, not saying that there is something wrong with network-manager... 

> 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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