[pfSense] L2TP encrypted or not?

Jim Pingle lists at pingle.org
Fri Sep 9 15:38:49 EDT 2011


On 9/9/2011 3:31 PM, Jens Kühnel wrote:
> I'm using PFSense 2.0-RC3. I'm playing around with VPN and stumbled upon
> Bug #475.
> 
> Do I understand it correctly that L2TP does not encrypt at the moment?
> 
> I googled around, but I couldn't find a trusted source for confirmation.
> Hope to get it here.

I mentioned it in passing here:

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Android_VPN_Connectivity#pfSense_2.0

It is not encrypted. It's purely a tunneling protocol from what I could
tell. As far as I saw mpd didn't have options to encrypt L2TP on its own.

Jim


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