[Openswan Users] l2tpd vs l2tpns

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Chris Purves wrote:

> Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Chris Purves wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, thanks for the feedback.  I guess I'll need to remember how to
> >> install from source, like a real linux user. ;-)
> >
> > The rpm is in Fedora Extras :)
> >
>
> I was able to install xl2tpd from source, but I'd like to give the rpm a
> try.  The source package didn't create the /etc/xl2tpd and config files
> automatically.
>
> Is it the package shown on the following page?
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/6/i386/repodata/repoview/l2tpd-0-0.69-0.6.20051030.fc6.html
>
> This shows l2tpd version 0.69, but xl2tpd is version 1.1 according to
> the xelerence website.  I've never downloaded a package from Fedora, so
> I may be looking in the wrong place.

If you have FC5 or FC6, simply: yum install xl2tpd
if you have FC4, grab the src.rpm from ftp://ftp.xelerance.com/xl2tpd/ and run:
rpm -hiv xl2tpd*src.rpm
rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/xl2tpd.spec
rpm -hiv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/xl2tp*rpm

Paul
>

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