José Luis Canales Salceda wrote: I'm considering to buy an Internet-via-satellite account and make it work on my SuSE 7.2 / 2.4.7 (SuSE) kernel linux box.
The service uses Microsoft's VPN protocol. To make it work it is neccessary to install a pptp client on the computer. I have found a program called "pptp-linux". Reading the docs on it I see it needs a patched version of the ppp daemon with "MS-chap and mppe support".
I just want to know if I need a new ppp daemon on SuSE 7.2 to make a VPN connection. I see that the kernel I'm actually using has a "ppp_mppe.o" module. Maybe I don't need to change anything on the ppp daemon I have.
I installed it in an earlier version. It was necessary to patch the kernel. Now, It seems suse comes with this done. You would need just to load ppp_mppe I guess what is needed is (modules.conf) alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate and the necessary updates to /etc/ppp/options to use mppe. This is only necessary if you want to user data encryption. If your provider's pptp server allows disabled encryption, and if that suits you, the standard pptp-linux client can be used.