[Openswan Users] *****SPAM***** Re: xl2tpd seems to cause packets to get mangled or disappear

[Paul Wouters]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Ray Overland wrote:

> The fact that is "mostly works" offers a me a great deal of optimism, but I
> was hoping that someone might have been able to point me to an application
> configuration option or build option that could be used to get this working.

You will have to collect data and trace the packets to see what is going wrong.
That is difficult to do if it only happens under load unfortunately.

> In a different thread, I am also trying to get the combination of l2tpd 0.70
> working with Openswan 2.4.9, and I just finished getting rp-l2tp to cross
> compile, but the rpl2tpd.conf is causing some confusion.

There are many bugs fixed in xl2tpd versus l2tpd. Check the xl2tpd changelog.
I wouldn't bother with l2tpd - it's just too broken.

Paul