PPTP VPN Client is not working on E2000 DD-WRT v24-sp2 (04/13/11) big (SVN revision 16785)

[2devnull]

Cannot get my DD-WRT to connect to customer's VPN using the built in PPTP client in DD-WRT. I have a Window's machine on my local network which connects without a problem.

The DD-WRT is also my gateway router connected to the modem for my internet connection.

Here is what I an seeing:

root@DD-WRT-E2000:~# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
          POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Doing a cat /var/log/messages, this repeats:

May  5 17:39:22 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5399]: Exit.
May  5 17:39:29 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5433]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:40:04 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5433]: Exit.
May  5 17:40:11 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5488]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:40:46 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5488]: Exit.
May  5 17:40:52 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5522]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:41:28 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5522]: Exit.
May  5 17:41:34 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5555]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:42:10 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5555]: Exit.
May  5 17:42:16 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5608]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:42:52 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5608]: Exit.
May  5 17:42:58 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5644]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:43:34 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5644]: Exit.
May  5 17:43:40 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5678]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:44:16 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5678]: Exit.
May  5 17:44:22 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5732]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:44:58 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5732]: Exit.
May  5 17:45:04 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5765]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:45:40 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5765]: Exit.
May  5 17:45:46 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5801]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
May  5 17:46:22 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.info pppd[5801]: Exit.
May  5 17:46:28 DD-WRT-E2000 daemon.notice pppd[5854]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0

I have even resorted to adding the following in startup: insmod nf_nat_proto_gre insmod nf_conntrack_proto_gre insmod nf_conntrack_pptp insmod nf_nat_pptp

lsmod thus gives this:

root@DD-WRT-E2000:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
imq                     4096  0 
nf_nat_pptp             4096  0 
nf_conntrack_pptp       4096  1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_nat_proto_gre        4096  1 nf_nat_pptp
nf_conntrack_proto_gre     4096  1 nf_conntrack_pptp
xt_mark                 4096  2 
ipt_IMQ                 4096  1 
xt_mac                  4096  5 
etherip                 8192  0 
switch_robo             4096  0 
switch_core             8192  1 switch_robo
bcm57xx               106496  0

Is the PPTP client in my version of DD-WRT broken? Please help.

[Sash]

this is no support forum!