How to establish a l2tp vpn connection?

[Stan Schymanski]

Hi Torsten,

If I understand correctly, vpnc-connect also asks for a group name and 
group password, which EPFL did not provide to me. All I have is the l2tp 
server name and a "shared secret". My colleague can connect without 
problems on his mac, so I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Cheers

Stan


On 05/03/2017 04:39 PM, Mähne Torsten wrote:
> Hello Stan,
>
>> Am 03.05.2017 um 16:24 schrieb Stan Schymanski 
>> <stanislaus.schymanski at sdsc.ethz.ch 
>> <mailto:stanislaus.schymanski at sdsc.ethz.ch>>:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> yes, anyconnect was a huge pain already back then. Even though, they 
> did not advertise it, vpnc-connect continued to work very well, so 
> that I switched back. Unfortunately, I don’t have anymore a backup 
> around of my vpnc.conf from that time.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stan
>>
> Regards,
>
> Torsten
>>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
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