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Questions tagged [l2tp]

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IPSec/L2TP VPN connection fails

I'm currently trying to establish a VPN connection to the network of my office using IPSec/L2TP with Ubuntu 16.04 (and/or Fedora 26) which fails with the following syslog entries (complete log below): 11:46:26 laptop NetworkManager[911]: received…
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Can't connect to VPN L2TP from Ubuntu 18.04 CLI

I have a VPN that is working when I connect through my windows using L2TP, however when I set up my ubuntu with CLI its not working. I get the following error when I run $ nmcli c up myvpn Error output Error: Connection activation failed: Could not…
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L2TP/IPSec VPN on Debian 10 without Network Manager

I have 2 computers - both on Debian 10. I need to connect them both to the same remote VPN server. One has a desktop manager (with Network Manager), and the other does not. I will refer to the one with the desktop manager as Debian GUI and the other…
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VPN service connection failed because the VPN service failed to start

I'm trying to connect to my universities VPN on Ubuntu. Here is their online guide - Off Campus | University of Stirling Going by the Mac installation guide, it states: "VPN Type: L2TP over IPsec" .. so I've run sudo apt-get install…
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L2TP over IPSec on Debian 10

My Debian 10 box has a Wifi interface, wlx08beac0a6c1d running a WEP AP for old hardware that doens't wupport WPA. My main network is 192.168.1.0/24 and this interface is configured to be 192.168.2.1. For starters that interface is restricted to one…
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Connecting to L2TP over IPSec VPN fails with fatal signal 15

I have Debian 10 Buster with KDE Plasma 5.14.5 and kernel 5.6.0-0.bpo.2-amd64. I am trying to connect to VPN L2TP over IPSec. However, when I try to connect, an error occurs with no apparent reason. It states that fatal signal 15 has occured, but no…
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VPN fails: Could not find source connection

I am running Ubuntu 18.04 and trying to get a VPN (L2TP/IPSec) connection to my company. The necessary tools are already installed and I have a profile with the correct access data. However, if I try to activate the VPN with nmcli c up VPN it…
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How to make l2tp vpn client work on Linux Mint?

I set up a vpn connection according to this instruction - https://www.rapidvpn.com/setup-vpn-l2tp-mint I establish a vpn connection to my server. The connection is established, but the pings do not go, the pages on the Internet do not open, there is…
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centos 7 nmcli l2tp vpn using command line

i try to create connection using lt2p vpn but my connection is not start [root@vps10337 system-connections]# nmcli connection add connection.id VPN_2 type vpn vpn-type l2tp connection.interface-name wlp2s0 ipv4.method auto vpn.data …
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How do I do the required route(s) for getting internet traffic to/from my client assigned public IPv4s on my L2TP server

I have a server running Ubuntu Server 20.04 which has two ethernet interfaces and is hosting the L2TP server (using accel-ppp). 'eno1' has a single public IPv4 address assigned. 'eno2' has access to a /26 public IPv4 block which I'd like to make use…
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l2tp connection in ubuntu 16.10

Recently I needed to use a VPN connection to surf the web. I've googled it and found some solutions about L2TP connections. I follow all the instructions that introduce but after I want to make the connection enable, my Lan card be disable and…
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Debian 11: setting up L2TP + IPSec - IPSec fails?

I'm trying to configure a new VPN client (L2TP and IPSec) on a very small AWS EC2 system running Debian 11 without a desktop. I've got as far as getting NetworkManager to work, but the VPN connection doesn't start, apparently because of an error to…
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limiting a VPN to use only the WIFI

The system is a PC which has an ethernet port as well as WIFI. Normally it will only be using the wired network (which is not connected to the outside world at all), but from time to time there is a need to connect to WIFI and a VPN over the WIFI -…
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change default route for VPN users

I have a linux (currently centos 8 but I can change it to anything) server running as l2tp VPN Server which has two network interfaces as below: NIC1: 192.168.1.4/24 NIC2: 192.168.3.2/24 Default gateway for server is 192.168.1.1 but I want to set…
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Awesome GUI VPN Configuration Management

How can I use a GUI for configuring an L2TP VPN on a system running Awesome? I'm trying to force myself to use a tiling window manager for a period long enough to decide if I really like it better than a floating window manager. I've installed…
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