Hello,
I didn't know where to post if router issue or firmware issue.
I installed a new RT-AC66U and first tried firmware 9313 then downgraded to 9135.
I configured several PPTP VPN users with mixed MAC and PC users.
If the password started with number and then a letter example " 123Pass " then the MAC users 9 out of ten times could not connect.
If the password started with a letter example " pass123 " or " Pass123 " then MAC users can always connect.
This happened no matter what OSX version they had.
PC users could always connect.
This is the error in the log
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl packet length.
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: CTRL read failed
or
Nov 24 13:06:19 pptp[1415]: Peer radas failed CHAP authentication
Nov 24 13:06:19 pptp[1415]: Connection terminated.
When it did connect it would show the following in the log
pppd 2.4.7 started by admin, uid 0
I wish it showed the actual user name that did successfully connect
With 9313 VPN response times were longer even when accessing the router admin pages.
With 9135 VPN response times were better when accessing the router admin pages.
The other difference in 9135 was this error in log " Nov 24 13:24:05 mDNSNetMonitor: GetLargeResourceRecord: opt 65002 optlen 8 wrong "
But I seen the post by RMerlin to ignore
Side question can I enable both pptp and openvpn to test both methods?
I also learned the hard way not to remove and add users on the same single config apply. Doing this caused the username be added to the back of the password of the usernames not being modified and modified.
example " pass123username " when the original password was " pass123 "
Let me know if you need additional info and I hope I was clear in the explanation of the problem.
I didn't know where to post if router issue or firmware issue.
I installed a new RT-AC66U and first tried firmware 9313 then downgraded to 9135.
I configured several PPTP VPN users with mixed MAC and PC users.
If the password started with number and then a letter example " 123Pass " then the MAC users 9 out of ten times could not connect.
If the password started with a letter example " pass123 " or " Pass123 " then MAC users can always connect.
This happened no matter what OSX version they had.
PC users could always connect.
This is the error in the log
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: EOF or bad error reading ctrl packet length.
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: couldn't read packet header (exit)
Nov 24 11:15:24 pptpd[1169]: CTRL: CTRL read failed
or
Nov 24 13:06:19 pptp[1415]: Peer radas failed CHAP authentication
Nov 24 13:06:19 pptp[1415]: Connection terminated.
When it did connect it would show the following in the log
pppd 2.4.7 started by admin, uid 0
I wish it showed the actual user name that did successfully connect
With 9313 VPN response times were longer even when accessing the router admin pages.
With 9135 VPN response times were better when accessing the router admin pages.
The other difference in 9135 was this error in log " Nov 24 13:24:05 mDNSNetMonitor: GetLargeResourceRecord: opt 65002 optlen 8 wrong "
But I seen the post by RMerlin to ignore
Side question can I enable both pptp and openvpn to test both methods?
I also learned the hard way not to remove and add users on the same single config apply. Doing this caused the username be added to the back of the password of the usernames not being modified and modified.
example " pass123username " when the original password was " pass123 "
Let me know if you need additional info and I hope I was clear in the explanation of the problem.
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