[CentOS] I want to connect to a l2tp server from centos.

Mon Sep 21 00:50:43 UTC 2015
Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>

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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