Re: Universal VPN client

On Monday, July 12, 2004 12:55 PM [EST], saurav khanna wrote:

> In my 2 years of experience in VPN I have not come across a single
> vpn client which will support PPTP,L2TP and IPSec simultaneously.
>
> PPTP and L2TP can besupported by the microsoft windows client but
> it will not support IPSec.
>


The Windows VPN client that comes with 2k/XP/etc, and can be added to
9x, support a hybrid L2TP/IPsec setup, in which IPsec runs over a L2TP
tunnel.    There is no 'pure' IPSec setup which will work out of the
box with FreeSwan or similar projects - you have to also run a L2TP
daemon to actually handle the first part of the connection.


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