Hi Naveen,
Use latest 'ip' build
If using centos or other distros not know to be....current.. build from
source
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/
And read included l2tp man pages
On Sep 20, 2013 1:13 PM, "Naveen Neelakanta" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to select a L2tp package for l2tp vpn client setup on linux.
> I was going through xl2tpd and openl2tp are the packages for l2tp and
> are the opensource packages.
> What exactly is the difference between the two and i am
> planning to use strongswan to provide ipsec vpn for the same.
>
>
> Thanks
> Naveen
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:22 AM, James Chapman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On 18/09/13 23:00, Naveen Neelakanta wrote:
>> > Hi ,
>> > I am a new bee to l2tp, I was going through
>> > http://openl2tp.org/doc/openl2tp.
>> >
>> > just to understand, does l2tp require PPP session, What exactly is the
>> > PPP session.
>> > Can we not setup lust the l2tp tunnel and send traffic through it , does
>> > it require a ppp tunnel.
>> > I want to just establish a l2tp tunnel between to linux laptops, do i
>> > have to have any other
>> > PPP package installed to get l2tp working.
>>
>> In L2TPv2, only PPP is tunnelled over L2TP.
>> In L2TPv3, the protocol was extended to allow other traffic types to be
>> carried. The term used is "pseudowire". L2TPv3 supports PPP, FrameRelay,
>> ATM, HDLC and Ethernet pseudowires and some others.
>>
>> I think you want L2TPv3 Ethernet pseudowires, which are virtual ethernet
>> links over an L2TP tunnel. If you are creating a small number of tunnels
>> between two Linux boxes, it can be done with standard Linux command line
>> tools. See http://prol2tp.com/documentation.html?page=l2tpv3.html under
>> "Unmanaged L2TPv3 L2 tunnels for Linux".
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Naveen
>>
>> --
>> James Chapman
>> Katalix Systems Ltd
>> http://www.katalix.com
>> Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development
>>
>
>
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