5 This l2tpd RPM was originally created by Lenny Cartier
6 <lenny@mandrakesoft.com> and Per Øyvind Karlsen <peroyvind@delonic.no>.
7 Some details have been changed by me (see specfile changelog).
8 Originally it only built on recent versions of Mandrake but it
9 should now work on Red Hat, SuSE and older Mandrake versions as well.
10 You may need to edit the specfile for non-Red Hat systems and
11 set a flag for your distribution of choice.
13 I don't know for what purpose Mandrakesoft included the l2tpd RPM
14 in Mandrake Cooker (Oct 21 2002), but my objective was to use it
15 in combination with FreeS/WAN so that Windows IPsec clients can
18 The original RPM by Mandrakesoft starts l2tpd at install and runs
19 it at startup. This has been changed for this RPM to be on the safe
20 side. The l2tpd sample config file is copied to the default l2tpd.conf
21 but all contents are commented out. L2tpd will still start on all
22 interfaces, though. This could be a security risk, so I decided
23 to not start l2tpd at install. It is also not added to the startup
24 configuration. You will have to edit the config file and start l2tpd
27 This RPM does not contain firewall rules. There is simply too much
28 variation (iptables, ipchains, Lokkit, homegrown rules etc.) to make any
29 assumptions about the particular firewall in place.
31 The example configuration files included in this RPM
32 reflect the following setup:
39 +-------------------+ +------------------+ +---------------+
40 | Win9x + MSL2TP or | ipsec0 | Linux FreeS/WAN | | some internal |
41 | SSH, SoftRemote |=========| l2tpd, pppd |----------| server |
42 | or Win2000/XP | eth0 | | eth1 | |
43 +-------------------+ +------------------+ +---------------+
45 234.234.234.234 eth0=ipsec0= eth1=192.168.1.98 192.168.1.2
46 123.123.123.123 ppp0=192.168.1.99
49 internal network: 192.168.1.x
50 (from which 192.168.1.128-192.168.1.254 are reserved for Road Warriors)
52 More information about this RPM package can be found at:
53 http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/freeswan-l2tp.html
54 This page contains the latest versions, source RPMs, etc.
56 Thank you to everybody who has provided feedback!
58 Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2@dds.nl>