[CentOS] I want to connect to a l2tp server from centos.
Eliezer Croitoru
eliezer at ngtech.co.il
Mon Sep 21 00:50:43 UTC 2015
Hey Gordon,
I do not have any security issue in this network.
I need to connect to a remote network on a secure network.
The options are pptp or l2tp(no ipsec encryption) so I do want to use
l2tp like in (lac\lns) and I am looking for a client for CentOS.
Note that it works in ubuntu so it is possible to achieve the same with
CentOS but I do not know what is behind the gui that initiates the
connection for l2tp.
With pptp I have no issue and I have a connection which works a lot of time.
Thanks,
Eliezer
On 18/09/2015 03:57, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 09/17/2015 04:47 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
>> If someone used l2tp the same way I want to use on CentOS 7 please
>> give me some advice.
>
> l2tp, by itself, offers no encryption. Notably, that means that your
> password is going to cross the network in clear text. Bare l2tp is the
> VPN equivalent of telnet. I really strongly recommend that you reconsider.
>
> ipsec, by itself, is a much better and easier way to achieve your goal.
> It will require less setup, and offer better security. There's no down
> side; ipsec is clearly a better choice for connecting two systems over
> an unsecured network.
>
> l2tp is typically used in conjunction with ipsec, for mobile clients.
> The reason is that l2tp integrates with external authentication (RADIUS,
> LDAP, Active Directory, etc) better than ipsec alone does. That's great
> when you have a group of users that you want to have individual
> authentication keys, but it's not a good fit for connecting one server
> to another.
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