[Openswan Users] Basic help with configuration of L2TP/IPSEC

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Gbenga wrote:

> I downloaded the l2tpd at http://www.xelerance.com/software/xl2tpd and compiled a debian package. I also installed the ppp package from the debian stable. My configuration is the same as mentioned on the Jacco's website (and the book). when I attempted to start the l2tpd server with "/usr/sbin/l2tpd -D" I got " l2tpd[3733]: init_network: Unable to bind socket: Cannot assign the requested address. Terminating." When I did ""/usr/sbin/l2tpd" not happen either.
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> What I would like to know is, exactly how do I confgure and start the l2tpd/ppp. A rudimentary explanation will be good. Did I need to enable pppd in /etc/inetd.conf?
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> I did a google and all explanation was that another l2tpd might be running, but there no other l2tpd run.

Try setting the IP you want xl2tpd to listen on in l2tpd.conf:

[global]
listen-addr = 192.168.1.98

If that fails, run netstat -an|grep 1701 and see if something took that port.

Paul