[Openswan Users] Upgrade to xl2tpd 1.2.6 breaks our setup

[alet at librelogiciel.com]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:52:15PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Gennady Kovalev wrote:
>
> >> after having upgraded our Debian Lenny+Squeeze (mix) openswan+xl2tpd
> >> gateway, xl2tpd went from 1.2.5 (IIRC) to 1.2.6, and from then on,
> >> everytime someone tried to connect the ppp connection would just die
> >> immediately.
> >
> > I have the same problem on our debian system (current testing squeeze).
> >
> > The problem is that ppp can't assign to client an ip address:
>
> I don't think an upgrade from 1.2.5 to 1.2.6 caused that. The changeset
> is mostly for openbsd systems, and one patch to avoid calling syslog
> from within an interrupt handler.
>
> Did pppd upgrade/change too?

Not sure if pppd was upgraded too or not, but what I'm 100% sure is that
I've downgraded ONLY xl2tpd from 1.2.6 to 1.2.0 to make it work again.

> Openswan i guess is performing okay or you would never get this far.

That's what I thought too.

I haven't had the time to test for the workaround suggested earlier
today, however.

bye

Jerome Alet