If you have access to a Linux machine that can run StrongSwan, this may
solve your VPN problem, as it implements IPSEC.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blind-sysadmins
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of George
Bell
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2017 5:57 PM
To: 'Blind sysadmins list'
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VPN - L2TP and the Virgin Hub 3 (and perhaps BT)
If you do not use VPN - hit delete now.
Having installed a new Server running Windows Server 2016, our latest
problem has been VPN communication from home to the office.
PPTP worked just fine, but Server 2016's Best Practices Advisor (BPA) said
that we should be using a higher level of security communication.
Setting up L2TP, the minimum advised, failed. I'll spare those details for
now, but if you try and fail, and also have Virgin's Hub 3, forget it. It
simply will not ever work - officially.
There is a solution, but that involves purchasing a router (a wireless one
if you need that too), at your own expense, to connect to the Virgin Hub 3.
You then have to configure the Hub 3 as a Modem, and go from there.
Virgin did once support L2TP, but they have removed the option.
The Virgin user lists are full of IT managers who, since at least January
this year, are complaining the their home workers have the problem, and that
they are forced to open the PPTP server option.
And if you have the same with British Telecom, do not be surprised if you
have the same problem. A colleague needing access to our server contacted
BT, and the two support people he spoke to in Delhi (or was it Bombay), did
not even know what L2TP was. He solved it himself but I don't have details.
With Internet Security a top priority, especially for businesses, I am
staggered about this!
George.
_______________________________________________
Blind-sysadmins mailing list
Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins