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  1. Bug #88986
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 88986

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cygnus (cygnus) wrote :

cite from README.MPPE:

if you turn it on, all other compression options
are disabled and MPPE *must* be negotiated successfully in both directions
(CCP is unidirectional) or the link will be disconnected. I think this is
reasonable since, if you want encryption, you want encryption. That is,
I am not convinced that optional encryption is useful.

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So this intentionally made by the author. I tried to contact the Original Author, but didn't receive any answers.

I tried to change that behaviour but was only partly successful. Using the patch is is now possible to make MPPE optional, but it will be optional in any case. I couldn't find a really good solution which would add a additional config option. That didn't really work out. I might be able to provide a better patch, but currently that one is sufficient for me, since I only need optional MPPE support and no MPPE required solution.