Connecting to L2TP
Brian McKee
brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 16:20:32 UTC 2008
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Next week I'm converting another Windows XP box to Ubuntu. Currently,
> she connects to the Internet via a cable modem and dialer software in
> Windows. I contacted the ISP but they don't know what the L word
> means. When I tell them I'm running Linux (or Ubuntu) they insist on
> knowing what version of Windows it's running under before helping at
> all. As she's got another 8 months on her contract with them,
> switching ISP's is out of the question.
>
> What program can connect to a cable modem and dial? She has this information:
> 1) host name
> 2) user name
> 3) password
> 4) L2TP
Sounds like the L2TP is the real trick. While I don't know of any ISPs that do
that, I know that VPN connections like L2TP for all subscribers are done in
some places in the world. Looks like you found one :-)
This link looks promising.... http://stuff.pulkes.org/l2tp/
HTH
Brian
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