Connecting to L2TP

[Brian McKee]

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