I have just installed another firewall and i have the same settings on both firewalls other than the ip addresses and the vpn works on firewall number 1 but i can't get it to work on firewall number 2 want to see if anyone could help me out on this. here is a copy of the log file. Thank You Jan 31 22:56:00 mathesfire pptpd[5486]: MGR: Manager process started Jan 31 22:56:00 mathesfire pptpd[5486]: MGR: Maximum of 6 connections available Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: CTRL: Client 71.214.216.52 control connection started Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: CTRL: Starting call (launching pppd, opening GRE) Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pppd[5502]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pppd[5502]: using channel 7 Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pppd[5502]: Using interface ppp0 Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pppd[5502]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2 Jan 31 22:56:10 mathesfire pppd[5502]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MS-v2> <magic 0xffbccd41> <pcomp> <accomp>] Jan 31 22:56:37 mathesfire last message repeated 9 times Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pppd[5502]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pppd[5502]: Connection terminated. Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pppd[5502]: Modem hangup Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pppd[5502]: Exit. Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: GRE: read(fd=7,buffer=8058640,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error = Input/output error, usually caused by unexpected termination of pppd, check option syntax and pppd logs Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE write failed (pty,gre)=(7,8) Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: CTRL: Reaping child PPP[5502] Jan 31 22:56:40 mathesfire pptpd[5501]: CTRL: Client 71.214.216.52 control connection finished
Update. I Connected my computer into the same hub as the server and was able to connect just fine to the vpn so the problem has to deal with connecting from the outside world. Any help will be great
