[Openswan Users] L2TP and OpenSWAN 2.6.x (was: openswan 2.4.14 + xl2tpd)

[Paul Wouters]

On Fri, 29 May 2009, Nels Lindquist wrote:

>>> Few weeks ago, I had a problem with the last openswan (2.6.21) and xl2tpd.
>>> Someone told me that this version has a bug with nat-t and advice me to use the 2.4.14 of
>>> openswan version.
>>
>> correct.
>
> Is there any progress on this issue?  I had the same problem; upgraded
> to 2.6.21 and L2TP users were unable to connect.  Logs showed the
> transport SA coming up fine, but xl2tpd logs showed nothing at all.

No, the bug is still outstanding, see:

https://bugs.xelerance.com/issues/1004

> Rolled back to 2.4.14 and everything is working fine again (though of
> course there's no saref stuff working, which was the motivation for
> upgrading to 2.6.x).

saref also means you might need to do some work integrate the code from
the ng-patch/ directory. We have not checked it post 2.6.18. It is also
only available for KLIPS, so bug 1004 is not relevant to  you, as that
is a NETKEY bug only.

Paul