{"id":474,"date":"2016-03-31T23:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedstechshack.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2016-03-31T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:47:52","slug":"set-l2tpipsec-vpn-linux-using-networkmanager-strongswan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedstechshack.com\/2016\/03\/31\/set-l2tpipsec-vpn-linux-using-networkmanager-strongswan\/","title":{"rendered":"How to set up L2TP\/IPsec VPN on Linux (using NetworkManager & strongSwan)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although the L2TP\/IPsec VPN protocols<\/a> were primarily developed by Microsoft and Cisco, there are open source alternatives that work well in Linux. L2TP\/IPsec is an older VPN protocol but it is still quite popular despite the Snowden revelations<\/a> that the NSA may have deliberately weakened the protocol. It supports various encryption ciphers and is built-in to Microsoft Windows and many routers.<\/p>\n If you want to use L2TP\/IPsec on Linux you are probably going to need to install a few extra packages. I wrote this tutorial on Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon desktop edition, but it should be very similar for other flavors of Linux, and I will discuss these as well. Plenty of screenshots are included below.<\/p>\n