pptp-client with mppe

[Tory Patnoe]

Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 11:24 -0600, Tory Patnoe wrote:
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>>I'm new to ubuntu (and debian). I was using gentoo. With gentoo I got really sick of compiling and getting everything working was a pain, before that used SUSE. Suse worked great but I missed many of the new features and was tired of spend $ on upgrades. With Ubuntu it has been the easiest to use distro I've used yet. However....
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>>I'm trying to get a pptp-client working with MPPE encryption (this was easy with Suse since it had everything precomplied in). According to the pptp-client package I need to patch the kernel and ppp.
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>>Are their instructions for this? Should I go to the debian documentation and find instructions from there?
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>Please, forget that note.
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>Ubuntu should "just work" without recompile anything to get pptp
>support, that note it's an obsolete one that was not removed on time.
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>That's the theory, unfortunately I was not able to validate the mppe
>encryption support so I cannot tell you that it will work for sure,
>without it, it works for me.
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Thanks.

What is the configuration program for ubuntu? Debian uses pptpconfig. 
But that didn't show up on synaptic. Should I just configure by hand?


Tor

>Cheers.
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>>Tory Patnoe
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