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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I'm looking into L2TP/IPsec remote access solutions using Openswan. I've got a working setup using xl2tpd 1.1.06 and Openswan 2.4.7. I noticed a comment in Section 13 of Jacco's L2TP/IPsec VPN guide that stated:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"It seems to me that l2tpd is great to get started and easy to use for small setups. However, for a serious deployment with a considerable number of clients, you will probably want to use one of the other L2TP servers: rp-l2tp, l2tpns or possibly OpenL2TP."</FONT></P>
<P><A HREF="http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html</FONT></U></A>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Does anyone have experience running the xl2tpd fork in a production environment with greater than 500 users and 100 concurrent sessions? Or, if you are using another L2TP server can you share your experiences. I'll send out a summary of whatever responses I receive.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Jacco, can you shed some more light around this comment and what type of scalability issues that users might expect to experience?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-mike</FONT>
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