Re: [L2tpd-devel] [PATCH] various patches

[Eric S. <er...@tr...>]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Jeff Mcadams wrote:

> >* Add comments speculating where L2TP/IPSEC support might be included.
>
> Yeah...this is gonna be a major project coming down the pike...not sure
> it will be productive to put IPSec into l2tpd itself...although it may
> come to that eventually.  It'd be nice to not have to re-invent the
> wheel and just make it play nice with FreeS/WAN or something like that.

It works pretty well with freeswan, I got it working in "Win2K Emulation
Mode" last month. Putting IPSEC-related code into l2tpd itself would
be pointless and disastrous IMO. It's really hard to do well and is totally
orthogonal to the l2tpd functionality.

http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/10075/2001/12/0/7326069/

-=Eric

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  Eric Sorenson - Systems / Network Administrator - Transmeta Corporation