[Openswan Users] Strange Problem with L2TP/IPSec

Ravi Verma ravi.verma at telecommand.com
Thu Sep 1 18:04:10 CEST 2005


Thanks a lot. Strangely enough it is working for exactly one Windows XP
client and several Linux clients.

I can live with this, we will dedicate one VPN server for machine for
L2TP/IPsec and another for Openswan-to-Openswan connection.

Regards.


On Thu, September 1, 2005 4:04 pm, Paul Wouters said:
> 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
>


-- 
Kind regards.

Ravi Verma
Chief Executive Officer
Telecommand Software and Services
2210 Plaza Drive, Ste 150
Rocklin, CA 95765
Phone: 9167053261, 866-220-RAVI (Toll-free)
Fax: 9169142008
www.telecommand.com



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