FreeBSD L2TP client

Ean Kingston ean at hedron.org
Wed Jun 22 14:01:00 GMT 2005


On June 21, 2005 08:24 pm, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:42:52 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
>
> you wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:31:51PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:05:28 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
> >>
> >> you wrote:
> >> >I am looking for a way to use FreeBSD as a L2TP VPN client.  Does
> >> > anyone know of a way to do this.  I found ng_l2tp, but I'm not quite
> >> > sure how to use it.  If anyone has a good how-to, or can give me some
> >> > direction, I'd appreciate it.  Thank you.

I used to use pptpclient (from the ports) but I think the vpn server supported 
pptp as well as l2tp. At least it was easy to set up so may be worth a try.

> >>
> >> See
> >> /usr/ports/net/sl2tps
> >>
> >> 	---Mike
> >
> >What I really need is a VPN client.  I already have a server.  I need a
> > way to connect from various locations with my laptop.
>
> I havent used it, but
> http://www.like.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de/propro/freebsd/
> with mpd might work.  I dont think any of these implementations have
> any encryption however.
>
> 	---Mike
>
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