Just some additional information ... I listed the wrong router model in my first post on this ... should have been Linksys BEFW11S4 (v2).
This week I replaced it with a Linksys WRT54GL and I no longer have the issue and can . This doesn't mean there is no issue with Ubuntu's pptp support, just that that I was able to workaround the problem by changing to newer networking hardware.
But that at least explains why it appears that just a few people are having this issue.
Just some additional information ... I listed the wrong router model in my first post on this ... should have been Linksys BEFW11S4 (v2).
This week I replaced it with a Linksys WRT54GL and I no longer have the issue and can . This doesn't mean there is no issue with Ubuntu's pptp support, just that that I was able to workaround the problem by changing to newer networking hardware.
But that at least explains why it appears that just a few people are having this issue.