Comment 7 for bug 278309

Further to my earlier post. I will try Brian's suggestion. Interestingly, I can vastly improve the stability of the vpn connection by reducing the MTU of ppp0 to 1400 (what i beleive is the MS standard for the PPTP VPN protocol). This currently has to be done after connection to the VPN in a terminal but was previously a configurable option in Network Manager 0.6.6 but not . If the connection drops, it resets to its default MTU of 1496 and a terminal command needs issuing again. As a by product of this Pidgin that previously caused the VPN to fail now not only remains stable, but the MSN connection that has never been able to connect (in Hardy or Intrepid) now works with no problems.