[BLUG] iu vpn

Daniel Arvesen blug_at_mailman.cs.indiana.edu
Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:35:48 -0500


On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:09:14PM -0500, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
> >It works fine for me at IUPUI (on Ubuntu as well).  Have you registered
> >your wireless adapter with the campus DHCP service
> >(http://dhcp.indiana.edu)?
> 
> Yes.  I spoke to someone at IUPUI on the phone and he said problems like 
> mine are typical and they're reworking the script.

Make sure that you are running a recent kernel and have MPPE enabled in
the kernel. IU requires MPPE to authenticate to the VPN. PPP also has to
be installed, and recent versions (2.4.4) have MPPE support build in,
although I don't know if it is enabled by default at compile time.

--Daniel