[Openswan Users]

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Chris Garrigues wrote:

> I'm trying to bring up a VPN from a OSX roadrunner (MacBook Pro running 10.4.6)
> to a Mandriva based firewall running openswan-2.3.1-1mdk, l2tpd-0.69-11jdl and
> ppp-2.4.3-4mdk.
> 
> May 19 11:06:27 fw l2tpd[20615]: message_type_avp: message type 1 (Start-Control-Connection-Request) 
> May 19 11:06:28 fw l2tpd[20615]: message_type_avp: message type 1 (Start-Control-Connection-Request) 
> May 19 11:06:29 fw l2tpd[20615]: message_type_avp: message type 1 (Start-Control-Connection-Request) 
> May 19 11:06:30 fw l2tpd[20615]: message_type_avp: message type 1 (Start-Control-Connection-Request) 

I saw the same thing the other day. I suspect it is a problem in the handling
of ptys. I upgraded Openswan to the latest version, disconnected on the Mac,
connected again and after that it worked. The strange thing is that when
the problem occurred I did not see the log message
"N_HDLC line discipline registered."
What if you do a manual "modprobe n_hdlc" before you connect? Also, I
don't know if xl2tpd has seen any pty fixes but you may want to try that.

Jacco
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