[Openswan Users] It's me again (L2TP)

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Chris Thomas wrote:

> I've seen a few guides here and there on the internet with
> walk-thrus for setting up an OpenSwan server.  Most of them mention
> installing l2tpd and I was wondering if I need this on either CentOS 5.1
> or Ubuntu Server 7.10.

No, an L2TP server is absolutely not required. But in some cases L2TP may
make it easier to support Mac OS X and Windows clients. See also:
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html#ProsCons

Jacco
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