[Openswan Users] Strange Problem with L2TP/IPSec

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Fri Sep 2 02:04:39 CEST 2005


On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Ravi Verma wrote:

> Regarding use of certificates, the machine ravi.telecommand.com is indeed
> using authby=rsasig to access the VPN server and the machine using
> L2TP/IPSec is complaining about ravi.telecommand.com using the virtual ip
> address.
>
> Unfortunately L2TP/IPSec seems to be the most convenient option for
> Windows XP clients.

Mixing plain X.509 roadwarriors and L2TP/IPsec connections on the same 
server is known not to work at this point, because pluto cannot determine
which connection to pick for phase 1.
Patches are floating in the bug tracker (bugs.openswan.org) but have not 
been tested or merged.

Paul



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