[Openswan Users] WinXp <-> Openswan....getting there but no cigar

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Jerome Kaidor wrote:

> Jun 10 15:50:10 tr4 pluto[1739]: "wintwok"[10] 67.118.246.207 #19: IPsec SA
>             established {ESP=>0x19dc93d9 <0x74366f5b xfrm=3DES_0-HMAC_MD5}
>
> But then WinXP pops up a window that says:
>   "Error 651: The modem (or other connecting device) has reported an error."
>
> ..And round about this time - assumably after the Error 651 - the the Windows
> machine tells the Linux box to tear down the IPSEC SA:

>    I suspect that the ball is now in the court of l2tpd and pppd.  Since
> I've never run PPP on this server, I suppose that's all screwed up.
>
>   One thing that confuses me:  Windows XP asks for a user name and password
> in the "Connect" popup.  What software does this refer to?  It's not IPSEC,

It's the l2tp (ppp) authentication. You need to setup an account in
pap-secrets/chap-secrets. See Jacco's page on how to configure l2tp on linux:

http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html

Paul