How to establish a l2tp vpn connection?

Stan Schymanski stanislaus.schymanski at sdsc.ethz.ch
Wed May 3 14:43:53 CEST 2017


I need to connect to a l2tp vpn at EPFL, using a shared secret. I 
haven't found a way to do this from Linux so far, and most of the 
discussion threads I found pointed to strongswan. Do you know a better way?

Cheers

Stan


On 05/01/2017 01:15 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Hi Stan,
>
> just out of curiosity..
>
> On 04/20/2017 12:06 PM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
>> Update: This sounds promising, but not sure if it would work in
>> Progress: https://github.com/seriyps/NetworkManager-l2tp/wiki
> where are you using this? i always perceived strongswan to be rather
> niche, most people use either openvpn or one of the cisco vpns (vpnc,
> openconnect). all of these three variants are nicely supported with any
> linux system since years.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>

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