Re: PPTP "not working" after update on Tuesday

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Vick Khera <vivek@...> wrote:
> Office firewall has been running 2.0-RC2 from some time in May.  PPTP
> was working fine and dandy from iOS devices.  Just click the vpn on
> and off you went.
>
> Yesterday I updated the firewall to the latest snapshot of RC3 (Aug 30
> 18:45:48).  Since this time, after the PPTP connect succeeds.  The
> pfSense logs show full success and assignment of the IP address to the
> client, yet no traffic will pass.
>
> The only two "tools" to test on the iOS device are mail and the
> browser, and neither makes a connection to the server inside the
> office.
>
> The PPTP firewall filter tab has the "allow" rule.  No other changes
> were made to the configuration other than running the upgrade.
>
> If I ping back from the inside host to the assigned IP, it replies
> "sendto: Host is down" *immediately*.  Normally pinging a dead IP
> takes a while before it responds with that.
>

That's from a kernel patch that was in one day's snapshots, it's since
been reverted. Downgrade to something from the 29th, or early on the
30th, or upgrade to the one that'll come out in the next few hours.

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