Jorge Daniel Sequeira Matias wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm running a PPTP VPN Server for almost 4 years now. This server is > running in a Debian Linux (unstable). > The configuration for the last 1 year and a half was the following: > > Computer 2x Intel Xeon 2.6GHz and 512MB RAM > Linux v2.6.11.6 (vanilla) with MPPE patch > Debian distribution with the following packages > - pppd 2.4.3-20050321 > - libradius1 0.3.2-8 > - radiusclient1 0.3.2-8 > > With this configuration I had reach a peek of aprox. 600 hundred PPTP > connections simultaneously. The computer gets heavy loaded doing MPPE > compression/decompression with 40Mbits/sec of PPP traffic but didn't > have any problem with this setup. The authentication process is using a > pool of RADIUS servers. > > This machine is also a firewall, and now a new feature was needed: > PPTP VPN connections from the inside. > > The problem: > > After the upgrade to a Linux v2.6.15.4 (vanilla) with no patches to > use the new "ip_conntrack_pptp" module, I started to get "pppd" > processes hanging in "S" state and consuming CPU power. Does the problem go away without the ip_conntrack_pptp module loaded? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
