SOLVED: Re: [Openswan Users] L2TP & MTU Problem?

[Dennis Leist]

Jacco de Leeuw schrieb:

> Dennis Leist schreef:
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>>> I have troubles while connecting with l2tpd .
>>> Server: SuSE 9.1; kernel 2.6; openswan.2.1.4; l2tpd-0.69-8jdl
>>> Client: W2k SP4 completley patched (as possible ;-) ) even 
>>> NAT-T-Patch installed.
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>> The client only wants to use CHAP MS-v2 and nothing else.
>> When I activated CHAP; it worked fine!
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> Apparently SuSE's pppd does not contain support for MS-CHAP
> (v1 or v2). Recent versions of Mandrake for instance support
> MS-CHAP out of the box.

Yeah, you're right:
/usr/share/doc/packages/ppp/README.MSCHAP80 refers to that.
Recompiling is necessary.

> By default Windows wants to use MS-CHAP, unless the option
> "Require data encryption" is unchecked, or unless you select
> "Advanced (custom settings)" and then add CHAP to the allowed
> protocols. Like in this screenshot:

Exactly what I did ;-)
But am I right, that even PAP for l2tpd is safe enough, because the whole
connection is secured by openswan?

THX Dennis