[Openswan Users] Route created by openswan

[Jacco de Leeuw]

Jim Talbut wrote:

> I'm using OpenSwan and xl2tpd to connect to a SonicWall VPN.

So, you're using it as a client? Can I chalk it up as working?

> 1. When I run "ipsec auto --show --verbose --up OMG" it automatically 
> creates a useless route to the VPN server.
> This route prevents xl2tpd from working,

How does this prevent x2ltpd from working?

> 2. (off-topic for this group) When I start xl2tpd by poking to 
> /var/run/xl2tpd/l2tp-control I don't have any way of knowing whether it 
> has completed.
> Is there some way to find out?

There should be some logging to log files such as /var/log/messages.
Is that not the case?

Jacco
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