Hello, i need to configure a centos 6.3 - server as an l2tp/ipsec-client. I have no idea how I there previous or if this is even possible. Where one might find appropriate instructions? Google is not very helpful, without any idea. Thanks cami
On 2/1/2013 1:55 AM, sebastian wrote:> i need to configure a centos 6.3 - server as an l2tp/ipsec-client. I > have no idea how I there previous or if this is even possible. > Where one might find appropriate instructions? Google is not very > helpful, without any idea.whats the server? there's no single standard for how VPN's like that authenticate and get setup, even given that they are using l2tp over ipsec. ipsec itself is an unholy mess. I prefer SSL based VPNs like OpenVPN. openswan is the generic l2tp/ipsec client (and server) in linux, million configuration options via complex scripts, you need to know EXACTLY what the server is expecting to authenticate and setup a session, and what you're routing over it. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
On 02/01/2013 10:55 AM, sebastian wrote:> Hello, > > i need to configure a centos 6.3 - server as an l2tp/ipsec-client. I > have no idea how I there previous or if this is even possible. > Where one might find appropriate instructions? Google is not very > helpful, without any idea.CentOS 6.3 comes with Openswan which allows you to setup IPsec connections. More info on the Openswan website: https://www.openswan.org/projects/openswan/ There is also Libreswan which is a recent fork of Openswan. Current release is 3.0 and it has a long list of fixes over the latest Openswan release (2.6.38) so might be interesting to look at too: http://www.libreswan.org For L2TP there is xl2tpd: https://github.com/xelerance/xl2tpd which iirc is available from the EPEL repo. Regards, Patrick