Sorry, but tunnel ipsec in l2tp is quite normal. You need it to turn around the nat problem of ipsec. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Luis Domingo Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-security@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:40 PM Subject: Re: IPSec WinXP interop
> On Wednesday, 24 December 2003, at 00:49:31 +0000, > Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > When I try to log in, I get "Error 792: The L2TP connection attempt > > failed because security negotiation timed out." I don't get any > > "verifying username..." message. > > > Why do you need freeswan if you are trying to set up L2TP tunnels from > the Windows box to your Linux box ?. FreeS/WAN is an implementation of > the IPsec protocol suite, and as far as I know WXP has support by > default for it, so maybe you could have better luck with this standard > protocol than with the less one L2TP. > > > Any insight would be much appreciated. I must admit I'm still a little > > unclear how the whole idea works, but I believe that IPSec receives the > > connection, then calls l2tpd, which starts ppp. I can post more config > > / debug if needed. > > > I could be way mistaken, but L2TP and IPsec (FreeS/WAN and others) are > completely different and independent tunneling mechanisms, and so there > is no mix between them. Configure just L2TP XOR IPsec. > > Greetings. > > -- > Jose Luis Domingo Lopez > Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Sid (Linux 2.6.0) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
