Thanks -- I followed the wrong wiki, I will see if there is much difference and check the debugging.
Thanks. Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 19 Dec 2013 14:27:28 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Hi. I am trying to configure l2tp-isec to a server and although it > > works in Winblows, whenever I put c followed by the name, it times out. > > I am not seeing any particular bad messages, except that netlink says 20 > > bytes left over after parsing attributes, but there seems to be no > > solution to that. I am using openswan plus xl2tp. > > > > > > How can I troubleshoot this, or should I post my configs here? > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > Have you followed suggestions relevant to openswan and xl2tpd here? > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/IPsec_L2TP_VPN_server > > Increase the verbosity of the openswan debugging to see if ipsec is > established, or why it fails. > > If the ipsec association is established, then check the x2ltp configuration > and set 'debug tunnel = yes' to get more information from it, or start it as > 'xl2tpd -D' to get some useful information until you get it going. > > > However, if you are using Windows >=7 then it may be better to install and > run > StrongSwan with IKEv2 on Linux, which MSWindows can now support natively and > do away with L2TP all together. Openswan also supports IKEv2. > > -- > Regards, > Mick -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
