Re: FC3 on a VirtualPC needs PPTP support...
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 00:16 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
I installed Fedora Core in a VirtualPC box on an XP-Pro with 1 gig
RAM.
It has been done because I need both Windows and Linux development
environments basically at the same time.
But to get at the sources from the Linux box I also need CVS access to
the corporate server and this can only happen if I am inside the local
LAN via a VPN tunnel. CVS is not channeled through the firewall.
The VPN tunnel is served by a Windows2000 server with RRAS and it
implements the PPTP protocol.
So my best guess is that I should install PPTP support into FC3 and
then go from there. I found this link in previous posts:
http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-3.phtml
Here one of the early steps is to get a new kernel:
kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm
This is not getting a new kernel, it's compiling an additional kernel
module to run with your current kernel. This module is needed to provide
MPPE encryption as used by MS VPN servers.
However, in order to make FC3 run at all inside a Virtual PC box I
had
to install a kernel update already. Instructions were given here:
http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/FedoraCore.3.Final.html
and in step #43 one does this:
rpm -i --force kernel-2.6.9-vpc.i686.rpm
which I believe will install a new kernel (correct me if I am wrong).
It will, though I wonder why they specify --force (which is almost
always a bad idea).
What I am worried about now is if the PPTP install procedure will
invalidate the VirtualPC kernel stuff so that I won't be able to use
FC3 in VPC anymore...
This is unlikely. The kernel module required for MPPE adds one
additional module (ppp_mppe) and replaces the ppp_generic module. This
is done in a way that's uninstallable, so I wouldn't worry about it.
And I don't like to start over like I have had to do several
times
already just to get Linux going inside the VPC shell. So I am trying
to avoid a self-destruct here.
Anyone any ideas?
And please forgive if the questions sound dumb, I am not used to Linux
at all being a mainly Windows programmer...
P.S. I am the packager of the pptp package in Fedora Extras; you can use
either this package or the one on the pptpclient website. The
instructions on the pptpclient website also tell you how to install and
use the GUI configuration utility "pptpconfig", which is not yet
available in Extras.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>