On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:19:27PM -0400, David Gilmore wrote:

Is it possible to test a PPTP connection from within hobbit. I am currently testing the firewalls with ICMP, but that does not always correspond to being able to establish a VPN connection. I need to be able to pass username, password, and domain.

It won't be easy to do a full PPTP connection handshake. You might be able to script something using the Linux/*BSD pptp client from http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/

A quick solution would be to just test if TCP port 1723 accepts connections - this is the port used for the initial pptp connection setup. You can add this to ~hobbit/server/etc/bb-services:

[pptp] port 1723

Then you can setup your PPTP servers in bb-hosts, with a "pptp" test listed. It will only check that the port is open, but it's a simple test that should catch some problems (e.g. if the service has not been started, or if it has crashed).

Regards, Henrik