Inability to set pptp options like loglevel and nobuffer

[Psy[H[]]

Binary package hint: network-manager-pptp

When using NM, there is no way to set pptp connection with options like --loglevel 0 and --nobuffer.
If your ISP is buggy enough, without this options you get extremely slow internet connection, high pings and GIGABYTES of system logs about lost or reordered pptp packages.

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

I'm confirming this bug in Jaunty. If the connection is configured manually, the speed is few times higher than if it is configured by network manager, and it seems to be caused by absence of --loglevel 0 and --nobuffer options. So it'll be useful to have ability to specify them.

[Psy[H[] (vovik-wfa)]

an experimental workaround for this problem: wrapper script for pptp

сd /usr/sbin
sudo mv pptp pptpo
sudo nano pptp

insert these two lines there:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/sbin/pptpo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 --nobuffer --loglevel 0

save and give launch permissions:

sudo chmod +x pptp