Re: FC12 Recent update of PPP

[David L <idht4n gmail com>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:55 AM, C.Smith <cgasmith comcast net> wrote:
> FYI-if you run into PPPTP (VPN) failure under FC12 recently....
>
> The ~2/23/2010 update of fc12 brought down the latest and greatest ppp
> package, which broke NM. the error was something about security credentials
> and upon googling many related topics it seems NM is highly dependant on the
> lower level and has to be rebuilt, apparently has happened before.
> The "fix" for now is to "yum downgrade ppp" as su, and reboot, that works
> for the time being until NM can be rebuilt and distributed.
>
> I have no idea where the right folks are located, so this is the best means
> I can think of and its good info for others.

I think I ran into the problem you're talking about too.  NM PPTP has
never worked
for me under Ubuntu 9.10, but it was working under F12 until yesterday.
The symptom I see is a message something like:

"VPN failed because of no valid secrets"
Now f12 and Ubuntu behave identically for me (and neither work).  pptp still
works for me if I start it manually, just not using NM.

Cheers...

         Dave

PS - When I say I start it manually, I do something like this:

/usr/sbin/pppd call work logfd 1 updetach
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.116.0 netmask 255.255.252.0 dev ppp0


#/etc/ppp/peers/work
remotename work
linkname work
ipparam work
pty "pptp vpn.mycompany.com --nolaunchpppd "
name HEADQUARTERS\\yourusername
require-mppe
refuse-eap
noauth
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp



 #/etc/ppp/options.pptp
lock
noauth
refuse-eap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
nobsdcomp
nodeflate

#/etc/ppp/pap-secrets
HEADQUARTERS\\yourusername work yourpassword *

#/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
HEADQUARTERS\\yourusername work yourpassword *