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

[Jeff M. <je...@ig...>]

Also sprach Eric Sorenson
[FreeS/WAN with l2tpd]

>It works pretty well with freeswan, I got it working in "Win2K
>Emulation Mode" last month.

Wow...how did I miss that message on the list?  Amazing.

Anyway...that's good to know that it works.  Have you run across anyone
that has this type of setup interoperating with w2k itself?  That'd be
nice to confirm.  :)

>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.

Kinda my thinking as well...but I really didn't know enough about IPSec
to comment intelligently on it.  I didn't know if there were FreeS/WAN
libs or something that we could build into l2tpd to leverage their work
in ours.

Something like that would be cool, but I fear that its not terribly
practical given the nature of the things that we're dealing with here.

It may ultimately just be best to have good documentation on the
integration of the two components, work with distro vendors so that
their tools can support configuration of FreeS/WAN and l2tpd better, and
maybe working with the two packages to make the integration easier to
begin with.  I'm all ears for suggestions on the latter for the l2tpd
side of things.
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