Comment 10 for bug 371402

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Nils-Werner Claesson (nwclaesson) wrote : Re: [Bug 371402] Re: vpn fails to connect when server requires only 128 bit encryption

This error only occurs to me when I use UMTS and WLAN. I have made all the
correct settings.

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:39 PM, dmj726 <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can confirm that this affects Jaunty and now Karmic too. I could not
> connect to the U of I VPN until I removed "require-mppe" via opening
> gconf and going to system->networking->connections->1->vpn. I right
> clicked "require-mppe" and selected "Unset Key". After this the VPN
> worked. I would suggest modifying network manager to not set "require-
> mppe" if there is "require-mppe-128" selected.
>
> --
> vpn fails to connect when server requires only 128 bit encryption
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371402
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>
> Status in “network-manager-pptp” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: network-manager-pptp
>
> Everything worked fine in 8.10 and before. In 9.04 it fails. The server (U
> of Illinois) I connect to wants you to set 128 bit encryption and disable
> the 40 bit. I worked around the problem by replacing the gconf file,
> ~/.gconf/system/networking/connections/1/connection/%gconf.xml with a
> similar one from another machine (This other machine worked fine after the
> upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04). It seems the problem appears only when you edit
> the vpn-connection using 9.04. The difference between the two files is an
> extra line that seems partially redundant.
>
> configured in 9.04 (does not work):
> ... <entry name="require-mppe-128" mtime="1241379158" type="string"> ...
> ... <entry name="require-mppe" mtime="1241379158" type="string"> ...
>
> configured in 8.10 (works in 9.04):
> ... <entry name="require-mppe-128" mtime="1241379158" type="string"> ...
>
> Regarrds.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: network-manager-pptp 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr23-0ubuntu3
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: network-manager-pptp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
>

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