From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VPN connection from gentoo to OSX server?
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:07:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201306170807.17857.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kplbth$r75$1@ger.gmane.org>
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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.
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Regards,
Mick
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2013-06-16 21:49 [gentoo-user] VPN connection from gentoo to OSX server? walt
2013-06-16 22:00 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-06-17 7:07 ` Mick [this message]
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