[Openswan Users] NEWBIE: How to set-up a L2TP/IPSEC server for linux

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Denis Hawkins wrote:

> I am very new to this entire openswan setup for L2TP over IPSEC for Linux.
> Can anyone give me list of the best RPM's version combination for the
> following Linux Distributions, which install without errors?
>
> OpenSUSE 10.1 (Best kernel or latest version?)
>
> Openswan?
> L2TPD?
> PPP?
>
> Fedora Core 4 or 5 (Best kernel or latest version?)
>
> Openswan?
> L2TPD?
> PPP?
>
>
> I am looking at installing a L2TP over IPSEC server that has static IP
> address assigned to both Inside and outside addresses over an Ethernet
> connection, using XP and windows 2003 clients.

In general, the best setup is using openswan 2.4.6 (or never when released)
with openswan KLIPS as the IPsec stack, using xl2tpd as l2tp daemon with a
regular pppd.

Set the external ethX mtu to 1472.

Paul
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