[Openswan Users] Running Linux Openswan client.

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Gbenga wrote:

> I have a linux client running Strongswan, trying to connect to Openswan 2.4.7/NETKEY ruuning on kernel 2.6.18.
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> As a backgroung info, I have had window roadwarrior clients running for a while now. No problem at all. I now have this Linux Strongswan client that I have tried to configure as L2TP client with instruction from http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/linux-l2tp.html.
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> I got the tunel up and running but I could not get the l2tp to connect to the far side (openswan vpn server with xl2tpd version 1.1.05). On the client, I have Strongswan "Linux strongSwan U4.1.1/K2.6.20" with xl2tp version 1.1.09. I have tried various configuration without luck.
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> Has anyone try the same configuration or get Linux client running in l2tp format?

In openswan 2.5.x you can find a working example of linux as l2tp client in testing/l2tp-01/
(same example should work with the 2.4.x code, it is just missing that testcase)

> May 25 16:23:58 aparo l2tpd[23202]: udp_xmit failed with err=-1:Resource temporarily unavailable
> May 25 16:23:58 aparo l2tpd[23202]: control_finish: Peer requested tunnel 41146 twice, ignoring second one.

Are you sure this is xl2tpd and not l2tpd?

Paul