MPPE required, but kernel has no support.

[schreian at bc.edu (Tony Schreiner)]

On Aug 10, 2005, at 4:31 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:

> Ok, on to new swamps.
>
> I would like to enable PPTP on CentOS4 to accept connections from
> clients running MicroSoft Win2K and XP pro from outside our firewall.
>  I am testing pptpd-1.2.3-0 and tells me that I need kernel support
> for MPPE, which I suppose is MicroSoft's own form of PtoP encryption.
>  Is there a way of doing this without rebuilding the kernel?  If so,
> how?
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>

The sourceforge page http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/

has a pptp client for linux. Not Centos or RHEL specific, but for  
many other kinds. I believe it uses DKMS for the MPPE support so  
would not need a specially built kernel.


Tony Schreiner

Biology Department
Boston College