[Openswan Users] xl2tpd not working without listen-address

Will Roberts ironwill42 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 24 20:43:23 EST 2011


I ran into this back in May last year running 1.2.6. At the time Paul 
mentioned that they had a fix that would be available in the next 
version. I've now got 1.2.7 on my machines and still see the issue. It 
would be nice if this worked properly.

--Will

On 02/21/2011 07:15 PM, Toby Chamberlain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an openswan server with a number of public IPs and am trying to setup
> up xl2tpd on it. I can get it to work but *only* if I bind xl2tpd to a
> specific IP with listen-address... if I leave it listening on all IPs xl2tpd
> sends all its replies from the internal IP and I get lots of "peer requested
> tunnel xxx twice" error in the log (and the client cannot connect).
>
> We would like to be able to access the LAN remotely if any particular
> interface goes down, so having xl2tpd limited to one interface is not ideal.
> Is this a limitation of xl2tpd or is it an issue with my particular setup?
>
> <snip>
>
> I am using Debian squeeze: xl2tpd-1.2.6 and openswan 2.6.28
>
> Toby
>
>
>
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