[Openswan Users] Problem with Openswan with l2tp

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Tommaso Di Donato wrote:

>>One suggestion would be to download the Debian l2tpd tar ball from:
>>http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/l2tpd.html
>>and compile it. Then you copy the executable to /usr/sbin/l2tpd,
>>replacing the one in the RPM while keeping the other files intact.
> 
> Mine is a prodution system, and it is very critical: don't you think this way 
> I could make my system unstable (even if it will be very easy to undo the 
> changes...)?

You could ask on the l2tpd mailinglist (http://www.l2tpd.org/lists.html)
what they think of the stability of Debian's l2tpd branch. Or ask the
Debian maintainer directly: Jean-Francois Dive (jef at debian.org).

>>Windows does not support DPD.
> 
> Do you think that i "could" not use it, or I "should" not use it in 
> openswan?? ;)

Windows will probably just ignore the DPD 'vendor ID' so Openswan will
not send DPD messages. If you have other DPD enabled peers (Cisco, *swan)
I don't see much harm in enabling DPD.

Jacco
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