[Openswan Users] L2TP IPSEC and Windows XP

[Jacco de Leeuw]

André Mendes wrote:

> I discovered the problem. Ipsec.secrets had a problem when try to load
> certify. Another think that I found was that you need to put the leftnexthop
> in ipsec.conf. If you don't put this parameter, the gateway couldn't find
> your host.

Is the server behind NAT, perhaps?

> One more question. Do you know IF I can logon in Active Directory, instead
> of use the ppp file?

This is actually a pppd question. There is a Winbind plug-in for pppd,
or you could use RADIUS to authenticate against the Active Directory /
Windows Server:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html#L2TP-PPPencryption
There are of course are advantages in using Linux instead for
authentication :-).

Jacco
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