Re: PPTPD connect issue

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:30:46PM +0800, David Schulz wrote:
> would you or anyone be so kind to forward "Greg's" reply? Its
> neither in my Inbox nor in my Spam box :-(

We have archives of the list, and it is there:

http://marc.info/?l=poptop-server&m=134475244526875&w=2
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29665381

(also reminds me, there have been a few private replies directed to me
recently, and I haven't had time to reply, so consider them lost.
People should at least copy the mailing list to keep me involved.
http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/why.phtml covers the arguments.)

> Could you give a pointer as to what to look for during packet
> analysis that would help further prove the problem to be on the
> client side? Maybe a call id field with a missing value?

Capture packets that reach the destination when the problem is not
happening.  Capture packets that fail when the problem is happening.
Characterise the differences.

However, this won't catch an out-of-memory condition in routers.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/

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