[Openswan Users] L2TP/PPP authentication

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Alan Tamer Vasques wrote:

> I'm trying to configure a IPSec/L2TP linux client, but I'm facing some 
> little troubles.
> 
> Basically, the IPSec tunnel is stablished successfully, but the L2TP/PPP 
> authentication fails.
> 
> The first problem is that, looking at /var/log/messages in my VPN Server, it 
> says that the user is my client's hostname and not a real user that I want.

You can specify the 'user' option in options.l2tpd.
See 'man pppd'.

> Then, I configure my options.l2tpd file on the VPN Server to not perform 
> authentication (noauth). Then, the ppp0 appears on both sides, but the 
> server can't determine the Ethernet address of my client with the "proxyarp" 
> option.

Both sides run Linux? I would not recommend L2TP for such a setup.
IPsec without L2TP is easier to use.

Jacco
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