[CentOS] MPPE required, but kernel has no support.
Tony Schreiner
schreian at bc.edu
Thu Aug 11 14:36:41 UTC 2005
On Aug 10, 2005, at 4:31 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
> Ok, on to new swamps.
>
> I would like to enable PPTP on CentOS4 to accept connections from
> clients running MicroSoft Win2K and XP pro from outside our firewall.
> I am testing pptpd-1.2.3-0 and tells me that I need kernel support
> for MPPE, which I suppose is MicroSoft's own form of PtoP encryption.
> Is there a way of doing this without rebuilding the kernel? If so,
> how?
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
The sourceforge page http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
has a pptp client for linux. Not Centos or RHEL specific, but for
many other kinds. I believe it uses DKMS for the MPPE support so
would not need a specially built kernel.
Tony Schreiner
Biology Department
Boston College
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