Re: L2TP-over-IPsec (may be off topic)

[Kok-Yong Tan <ktan () realityartisans com>]

On Sep 14, 2010, at 15:50, Sake Blok wrote:

> On 14 sep 2010, at 20:15, Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
>
> > On Sep 14, 2010, at 13:59, Sake Blok wrote:
> >
> > > It seems like the L2TP tunnel just does not trigger the IPsec
> > > encapsulation to kick in. What does a network trace say? Only
> > > traffic on UDP port 1701, no UDP-500, no ip proto 50 and no UDP
> > > port 4500? That would be in sync with the above.
> >
> > This will be the next step but I haven't done that yet.
>
> That would get it a little more on-topic too, analysing the  
> packets ;-)
>
>
> > > What type of L2TP-over-IPsec client and L2TP-over-IPsec server are
> > > involved?
> >
> > I'm trying various Macintoshes at OS versions 10.5.8 and 10.6.4 to an
> > Xserve running OS version 10.4.11.
>
> If I understand your mails correctly, the FW does *not* terminate  
> the IPsec tunnel, nor the L2TP tunnel within the IPsec tunnel. Both  
> are terminated at the Xserve. In that case, the FW must have a NAT  
> rule to forward incoming IKE+ESP/NAT-T traffic towards Xserve.  
> Could it be that the NAT for IPsec secretly also forwards L2TP?
>
> A trace on the public and private side of the FW would really make  
> finding the cause easier :-)

Understood.  Will report back when I have gathered the data.  Thanks,  
Sake.

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