Hello everyone,<br><br>I'm trying to get L2TP working with Openswan but having some difficulties. Right now, when I run <br><br>ipsec auto --up giganews<br><br>I immediately get an error message stating<br><br>Whack: is Pluto running? connect() for "/var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl" <br>
failed (111 Connection refused)<br><br>Without any further messages on the screen.<br><br>ipsec
verify also shows that pluto fails. I'm not sure why it is failing,
however. I've looked around on the web and everything seems to point to
error logs should be in /var/log/secure with more details,<br>
but there currently is not a /var/log/secure log file. I then tried to
see where logging is configured, There also doesn't appear to be an
/etc/syslog.conf on the system. The base OS is Backtrack 5 which is
based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.<br>
<br>My configuration is:<br><br>/etc/ipsec.conf<br>conn giganews<br> authby=secret<br> pfs=no<br> rekey=yes<br> keyingtries=3<br> type=transport<br> left=%defaultroute<br> leftprotoport=17/1701<br>
right=<a href="http://us1.vpn.giganews.com/" target="_blank">us1.vpn.giganews.com</a><br> rightid=@<a href="http://us1.vpn.giganews.com/" target="_blank">us1.vpn.giganews.com</a><br> rightprotoport=17/1701<br>
auto=add<br><br>
/etc/ipsec.secrets<br>%any <a href="http://us1.vpn.giganews.com/" target="_blank">us1.vpn.giganews.com</a>: PSK "thisisourkey"<br><br>/etc/xl2tpd/xl2tpd.conf<br>[lac giganews]<br>lns = <a href="http://us1.vpn.giganews.com/" target="_blank">us1.vpn.giganews.com</a><br>
require chap = yes<br>refuse pap = yes<br>require authentication = yes<br>; Name should be your giganews username<br>name = giganews_username<br>ppp debug = no<br>pppoptfile = /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd.client<br>length bit = yes<br>
<br>/etc/ppp/chap-secrets<br>giganews_username <a href="http://us1.vpn.giganews.com/" target="_blank">us1.vpn.giganews.com</a> "giganews_password" *<br><br><br>/etc/ppp/options.l2tpd.client<br>ipcp-accept-local <br>
ipcp-accept-remote <br>
refuse-eap <br>noccp <br>noauth <br>crtscts <br>idle 1800 <br>mtu 1410 <br>mru 1410 <br>defaultroute <br>debug <br>lock <br>#proxyarp <br>connect-delay 5000<br><br>as taken from <a href="http://www.atxconsulting.com/blog/tjfontaine/2011/05/01/giganews-vyprvpn-linux-ipsec-l2tp" target="_blank">http://www.atxconsulting.com/blog/tjfontaine/2011/05/01/giganews-vyprvpn-linux-ipsec-l2tp</a>.<br>
<br>When I had a fresh install of openswan and everything and first
tried to run the ipsec auto --up command, I did not get the pluto error
message, but rather some others (first couldn't find the giganews name,
then some other that I can't remember). After a reboot, I started
getting the pluto error message.<br>
<br>Anyone have any advice on how I can get to the next step? I'm not
seeing why I get the pluto error message and not sure why it's not
logging anywhere.