On Sunday 16 Jun 2013 22:49:46 walt wrote: > A colleague of mine has set up a Mac server just for the purpose > of being a VPN server for the rest of us at work. So far I can't > make a good vpn connection from this linux machine or my android > tablet. > > I can log in using a vnc client and poke around in the server > settings, so I know that the server is configured to use L2PT/PPP > and not just PPP. I'm pretty sure that's where I'm going wrong. > > I have every L2TP option set in my kernel as well as all the > tunnel and ppp/pppoe options I can find (knowing very little about > the subject), but I can't tell if my attempted connections are > really using the L2TP protocol or not. Syslog says nothing about > L2TP, so I'm guessing there's something configured wrong on my end. > > I'm using networkmanager-pptp for the vpn connection, and the > networkmanager config applet mentions nothing about L2TP. > > Has anyone else done this successfully? > > Thanks for any clues.
I haven't used L2TP to comment on specifics, but have you emerged and set up xl2tp which I understand will set up the L2TP tunnel? L2TP will be encapsulated within IPSec, which you should set up using racoon, strongswan, etc. -- Regards, Mick
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