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On Sunday 16 Jun 2013 22:49:46 walt wrote: |
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> A colleague of mine has set up a Mac server just for the purpose |
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> of being a VPN server for the rest of us at work. So far I can't |
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> make a good vpn connection from this linux machine or my android |
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> tablet. |
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> I can log in using a vnc client and poke around in the server |
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> settings, so I know that the server is configured to use L2PT/PPP |
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> and not just PPP. I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going wrong. |
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> I have every L2TP option set in my kernel as well as all the |
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> tunnel and ppp/pppoe options I can find (knowing very little about |
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> the subject), but I can't tell if my attempted connections are |
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> really using the L2TP protocol or not. Syslog says nothing about |
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> L2TP, so I'm guessing there's something configured wrong on my end. |
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> I'm using networkmanager-pptp for the vpn connection, and the |
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> networkmanager config applet mentions nothing about L2TP. |
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> Has anyone else done this successfully? |
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> Thanks for any clues. |
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I haven't used L2TP to comment on specifics, but have you emerged and set up |
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xl2tp which I understand will set up the L2TP tunnel? L2TP will be |
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encapsulated within IPSec, which you should set up using racoon, strongswan, |
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etc. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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