mpd- no ng_l2tp coming up

[Da Rock]

On 03/19/11 00:03, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On 3/18/2011 6:44 AM, Da Rock wrote:
>    
>> First, the connection from Android (apparently uses mtpd- I just found
>> out) fails at SCCRP- apparently it doesn't respond to the challenge
>> response (logs posted previously). Using xl2tpd (apparently- linux only)
>> you have a l2tp-secrets file with the local hostname, remote hostname,
>> and the secret in that order.
>>      
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>    
>> How do I do this in mpd? I tried the
>> hostname directive, but its still no good. Or is this never going to
>> work with mpd? Just use it without secrets?
>>      
> There are username/passwd credentials and LAC-LNS credentials which are
> different and it sounds like you are confusing the two.  You just need
> to put the userid and passwd in the mpd.secrets file.
>    
I don't think I'm confusing the 2. I understand the ppp user login, and 
I understand the peer credentials- the error I see in the log is in 
relation to the peer credentials. If I run mpd on the FBSD system as a 
client with a secret then it connects. Android fails here- it will 
connect if I remove the secret from the server config (btw I'm still 
using my original server config- it was roughly the same as yours 
anyway, so I seem to have been on the right track). So whats different?

Android logs in as peer "anonymous". I haven't found anything specific 
in the manual (or maybe I missed it) that tells me how to do this. On 
linux apparently there's a l2tp-secrets file (xl2tpd uses it at least) 
which has "<local server> <remote peer> <secret> <(optional) IP>" per 
line. Seeing as android is linux, and uses mtpd (a linux l2tp client) 
then shouldn't I find a way for this? Or am I being paranoid?

This is to secure the control connection, but I will be using this with 
IPSEC. How much does/would this matter?
>    
>> Second, why does mpd die (as in terminated- no process running) when
>> this fails?
>>      
> Are you running it in the foreground ?  Just run it with mpd -b
>    
No, rc service. But I have to actually start it again after this 
failure- beats me why it would throw it in with a very basic error like 
that. The logs I posted earlier showed it up- the CS-DYING is thrown 
(assertion failure), and mpd4 or 5 dies. For that matter I think l2tpd 
dies for the same reason- whatever that is...

I'll try with -b and get back to you.
> 	---Mike
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