[CentOS] MPPE required, but kernel has no support.
Marco Garza
testuser at ccskavenger.info
Thu Aug 11 14:51:04 UTC 2005
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
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