Problem with bcrealy with FC3 client and Linux PPTP server

[Vinod Chandran]

Hi all,

I have a PPTP server running on Linux box, and have configured a PPTP client on Fedora 3 Desktop.
From the client, I am able to establish a PPTP tunnel.

I have turned on bcrelay in the server using the command
" bcrelay -d -i <LAN_interface> -o <PPP_interface>", plus the reverse order too.

I can see the broadcast packets being transferred by bcrelay to the client. This I have confirmed using tcpdump on the client. However , when I check for computers in the "Network Servers" section, I donot see any listing of the remote computers. Actually the behavior is pretty unpredictable, there were instances when I could get the listing.

Is performance of bcrealy unpredictable or am I missing something in the configuration. I saw some mails on bcrealy, but couldn't infer anything. I have seen similar behavior when using Windows clients.

The pptp/bcrealy version is 1.2.3 .

Thanks in advance,
Vinod C