[Openswan Users] Win XP & Ipsec

[Duncan Reed]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 13:57, Jacco de Leeuw wrote:
> MArtin Erasmus wrote:
> 
> > I now get the following:
> > l2tpd[30898]: getPtyMaster: No more free pseudo-tty's
> 
> It seems you are using Fedora Core 2. They removed 'legacy (BSD) pty support'
> (CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y) from FC2 and l2tpd depends on this feature.
> 
> The l2tpd version released by the Debian community may contain support for
> the new style pty's but I'm not sure.
> 
> Alternatively, you could recompile the FC2 kernel and enable legacy pty
> support in the kernel configuration.
> 
> > I have googled but dont seem to find the answer
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention this error message on my webpage. Fixed.
> 
> Jacco

As an aside I've also noticed in some 2.4 distros that the lines to make
pty's is commented out of the makedev (or equiv) file and therefore
there is no devices in /dev. You get the same error message as on a 2.6
distro without BSD Legacy pty's switched on. Caught me out once.

Duncan