[CentOS] MPPE required, but kernel has no support.

[Marco Garza]

Tony Schreiner wrote:
> 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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You can also look here for a howto.

http://www.phparchitecture.com/howto_show.php?id=3

HTH
-Marco Garza