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]
