How to establish a l2tp vpn connection?

[Stan Schymanski]

Thanks, Torsten!

A few years ago, I tried a similar anyconnect installer script from ETH 
and it screwed up other vpn connections I had working, so I wanted to 
avoid this, as I now have a working ETH vpn connection, which I need to 
keep. As an alternative to the installer script, the ETH web site gives 
clear instructions how to connect to vpn manually through the network 
manager from linux, which worked very well. EPFL only has the installer 
script and the l2tp way, so I would like to use l2tp instead of the 
installer script if possible. Unfortunately, the network manager does 
not seem to have this capability.

Cheers

Stan


On 05/03/2017 02:55 PM, Mähne Torsten wrote:
>
> Hello Stan,
>
>> Am 03.05.2017 um 14:43 schrieb Stan Schymanski 
>> <stanislaus.schymanski at sdsc.ethz.ch 
>> <mailto:stanislaus.schymanski at sdsc.ethz.ch>>:
>>
>> 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?
>>
> Did you read the information provided by EPFL?
>
> http://epnet.epfl.ch/Remote-Internet-Access
>
> When I was working at EPFL, I personally used vpnc as described in 
> <http://flashinformatique.epfl.ch/IMG/pdf/5-4-page3.pdf>
>
> However, that might not work anymore (last used in 2011).
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stan
>>
>
> Regards,
>
> Torsten
>
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> ___________________________________________
>>
>> Dr. Stan Schymanski
>> Swiss Data Science Center
>> ETH Zürich
>> UNH, Universitätstrasse 25
>> 8006 Zürich
>> Schweiz
>>
>> Room: UNH G 5
>> Ph: +41 44 633 63 65
>> ___________________________________________
>> _______________________________________________
>> bfh-linux-users mailing list
>> bfh-linux-users at lists.bfh.ch <mailto:bfh-linux-users at lists.bfh.ch>
>> https://lists.bfh.ch/listinfo/bfh-linux-users
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> bfh-linux-users mailing list
> bfh-linux-users at lists.bfh.ch
> https://lists.bfh.ch/listinfo/bfh-linux-users

-- 
___________________________________________

Dr. Stan Schymanski
Swiss Data Science Center
ETH Zürich
UNH, Universitätstrasse 25
8006 Zürich
Schweiz

Room: UNH G 5
Ph: +41 44 633 63 65
___________________________________________

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.bfh.ch/pipermail/bfh-linux-users/attachments/20170503/af835191/attachment.html>