Subject: Re: how to (now) deal with MPPE ?
To: NetBSD/current <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Sascha Retzki <sretzki@gmx.de>
List: current-users
Date: 06/12/2005 12:03:47
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:37:27AM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in my previous 2.0 install, I used poptop+mppe-lkm to give Windows clients VPN access.
> I switched to 3.0_BETA beause I saw MPPE support was included, but...
> 
> Now, pppd says :
> ########################################################################
> ...
> sent [CHAP Success id=... M=Access granted"]
> pppd[11322]: MPPE required, but kernel has no support.
> ...
> ########################################################################

When you said "was included", did you mean it was merged into the sources?
Or enabled in your kernel config?

This error-message clearly (the other one rather unclearly) indicate that
your kernel was not compiled with MPPE-stuff, thus its "not supported" 
(in the current config, to make it even more logical).

> 
> I tried to compile mppe-lkm (from pkgsrc-2005Q1) but it says:
> ########################################################################
> In file included from ppp_mppe_compress.c:38:
> ppp-comp-local.h:8:1: "MPPE_PAD" redefined
> In file included from ppp_mppe_compress.c:33:
> /usr/src/sys/net/ppp-comp.h:177:1: this is the location of the previous definition
> ########################################################################
> 
> is MPPE supposed to be integrated in 3.x ? meaning my ppp/options may be wrong ?
> 
> TIA,
> 	Jo
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