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List:       pptpclient-devel
Subject:    Re: [pptp-devel] ubuntu fiesty manual config possible?
From:       Alex Krowitz <alex_krowitz () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2007-08-04 4:52:51
Message-ID: 642620.16418.qm () web33608 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com
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I appreciate the response, thank you.

I run Ubuntu Feisty and have successfully configured
pptpclient by following the pptpclient site´s
directions on Ubuntu Configuration by Hand.

I have these packages installed:

pptp-linux version 1.7.0-2ubuntu2
ppp version 2.4.4rel-4.1ubuntu2

--- James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:44:54PM -0700, Alex
> Krowitz wrote:
> > pptpconfig is deprecated for Ubuntu Feisty.
> 
> pptpconfig is deprecated.  I'm the author of
> pptpconfig.
> 
> > It has been replaced by network-manager-applet.
> 
> On Ubuntu the replacement is the
> network-manager-pptp package.
> 
> > However, network-manager-applet does not support
> VPN
> > on machines using static IPs (see
> >
>
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug/126857
> > )
> 
> I don't believe that.  The bug report does not say
> it isn't supported,
> only that it didn't work for Jasey.  No
> investigation seems to have been
> done, and no logs provided.
> 
> > As a I would like to try to configure pptpclient
> by
> > hand on Ubuntu, but ... will I run into the same
> > problems that make pptpconfig fail on Feisty?
> 
> Well, it depends on what you do to configure it by
> hand, and which
> particular problems of pptpconfig you are talking
> about.  If you
> configure it by hand using pptpconfig, then I
> imagine you would stumble
> upon the interoperability problem between pptpconfig
> and pppd that was
> introduced in an earlier Ubuntu release.  If you
> configure it by hand
> but avoid using pptpconfig, the interoperability
> problem can be avoided.
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron                        
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
> HP Open Source, Volunteer            
> http://opensource.hp.com/
> PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer
> http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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