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From: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: mpd isn't listening on 1723 because he can't get it thhough it
 isn't used
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Bernard T. Higonnet wrote:
> I want to set up a VPN server on a freebsd machine so Windows clients can use
> it.
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 6.1 and mpd 3.18 from the ports collection.

I whould recommend you to use mpd 4.2.2 from the ports collection.

> When I run mpd I get this:
> 
> mpd: bind: Can't assign requested address
> mpd: can't get PPTP listening socket

It should mean that this is probably incorrect:

>  set pptp self 82.238.41.134 500

What do you mean by writing 500 here? Is the 82.238.41.134 is this 
router ip?

-- 
Alexander Motin