Freebsd MPD PPTP

[Mihai Tanasescu]

Alexander Motin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Mihai Tanasescu wrote:
>> I'm using MPD4 to establish a PPTP VPN from my FreeBSD 6.2 server to 
>> some clients and I've started encountering some strange problems.
>>
>> The connection goes well, everything functions accordingly but after 
>> a while (very random, can be 5 minutes, 1 hour, 8 hours) I loose 
>> connectivity (the clients' Windows icon show packet are being sent, 
>> but nothing is received). A tcpdump on the external interface shows 
>> no packets going out and the same for tcpdump on ng0 (although I'm 
>> not sure if it should display something here).
>
> Tcpdump on ng0 interface should display traffic inside tunnel. It also 
> may be interesting to look on internal interface as tcpdump is able to 
> decode PPTP packets.
>
>> For what I've seen the ip address on the ng0 interface disappears.
>
> This may be significant. Configure syslog for logging mpd messages, it 
> should give you information about why IP disappeared. Probably it 
> happened in result of some error. Also look to the messages logs, 
> there may be something interesting.
>
Hello,


Sorry..my mistake...I typed ng0 (for the first and second connections) 
and didn't notice it.
Now I have different netgraph interfaces.