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PPTP client frequent disconnect problem

I am using ASL 1.951 and from anywhere on the internet I am using PPTP client to do VPN connection, many times my PPTP client keeps disconnect and I have to reconnect all the times, sometime it stays connected for few minutes and sometime it stays connected for a few hours. I tried the PPTP client on multiple ISPs and multiple locations and they all face the disconnect problem.

Anyone facing this similar problem ??? is this a Astaro bug ????

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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago

ASL, can you confirm this ???
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0 Gert Hansen over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

Hi comeanddance,

we are using it here inhouse for testing purpose and it works fine.

What happens exactly at the windows machine.
Can you see anything unusual in the Logfile /var/log/daemon ??

kind regards
gert
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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to Gert Hansen

The windows PPTP client just popup with a reconnect window and if you reconnect that it will connect again and sometime you will have to try a couple of times before it can connect.

This problem does NOT happen when I tested locally, the windows PC and the ASL Wan are on the same subnet.

This problem seem to happen many times during the night when Internet is very busy in the U.S, are there any settings in ASL that I can change so it retries few more times before it disconnects ????
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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

Here is some more information from the log:

No response to 4 echo requests
Serial link appear to be disconnected

How can I increase the number of echo requests ?????
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0 tom_01 over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

I'll look into this. Hang on.
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0 tom_01 over 23 years ago in reply to tom_01
check out the

lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 5

options in /var/chroot-pptp/etc/ppp/options-default

from the pppd manpage:

/tom
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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to tom_01

If I make this change in the ASL, will the changes stay after I reboot or after I made other changes in PPTP using WebAdmin ?????

I think ASL need to default this to 10 or higher.
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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

I made the change from 4 to 14 in the options file, then I use webadmin to disable PPTP and enable PPTP again, and the value goes back to 4...How can I make value 14 stay permanent ?????
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0 tom_01 over 23 years ago in reply to comeanddance

did you edit the "options" file or the "options-default" file ?

"options" is generated from "options-default" ...

/tom
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0 comeanddance over 23 years ago in reply to tom_01

Tom,
Thank you, I was changing the options file. Changing the options-default file works fine.

I will start my testing tonight again and let you know the results.
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