kvpnc 7.04

[jack]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 19:53 -0400, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/06/2007 03:32 PM, JD wrote:
> > Ok.  I'm convinced that since no one else here knows about this,
> I'll
> > give the entire list a heads up.  Kvpnc on Kubuntu 7.04 is trash.
> > Launching it from the menu, I currently 38 processes running all
> > saying "/usr/bin/kvpnc"  and the number is climbing.  It doesn't
> > connect to the vpn at work, although my xp box will connect to it
> > without any problem. I have the router enabled for vpn accrss
> > (obviously), so it's not that.
> >
> > Can someone on the list recommend a vpn client that I can install on
> > kubuntu 7.04 that does work with a windows vpn server ?  Thanks.  I
> > really need this for my job, so I appreciate the help.
> 
> VPN's can be configured in multple ways and there are many VPN
> servers/clients. Perhaps if you give some details on what you are
> trying
> to connect to, and what you are doing to connect via your XP box
> someone
> can help.
Fair enough.  I'm running Kubuntu 7.04 updated as of 7/6/07 via repo's
only (no kernel mods).  The server I'm trying to connect to is a Win vpn
server.  I made sure that my router (Linksys WRT54G) was configured to
allow vpn access.  With the XP box (used for 'legacy' testing of things
like this), I went into the network connections dialog, setup a vpn
connection, asked it to connect, and it shows as "connected".  I didn't
do much browsing around with it, as my main concern is to get the Linux
machine to connect.

On the Kubuntu side, I have knetworkmanager installed, kvpnc, and the
plugins.  I configured kvpnc to connect to the vpn at work, and once the
30th or 40th process started, promptly went to a command shell and sudo
killall vpnc'd that whole lot...
> 
> I run many VPN's for my customers and even with hardware presets (I
> only
> use encrypted VPN routers) it can take some trial and error to get the
> right combination so that both ends talk to each other. Given that you
> are trying kvpnc I suppose that one can assume that you are running
> kbuntu and that you've already visited
> http://home.gna.org/kvpnc/en/index.html to ensure that you have
> configured the software properly?

Yes, I did visit that link and followed through three others mentioned
in the forums as well.  The end result of the trial and error is _not_
using kvpnc (see above note)... I did install the pptpconfig from James
Cameron.  When running that program (as root), this is what is in the
pptpconfig tunnel dialog box - 

Using interface ppp0
pptpconfig: monitoring interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Warning - secret file /etc/ppp/chap-secrets has world and/or group
access
CHAP authentication succeeded
MPPE 128-bit stateless compression enabled
Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
local  IP address 10.1.25.129
remote IP address 10.1.25.107
primary   DNS address 10.1.3.25
secondary DNS address 10.1.3.20

I do get the message "cannot determine proxy address for arp".  I cannot
add the route suggested (route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask
255.255.255.0 dev ppp0) unless pptpconfig is actually running.  When it
is running and I do add the route, the status of the tunnel stays at
"starting" in the pptpconfig dialog.

Any suggestions as to how to finally get this connected would be most
appreciated.
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