![]() ![]() ![]() Next, turn on the VPN connection to start using it. Now your new VPN connection should be added. Then enable IPsec tunnel to L2TP host, enter (or copy and paste the) the Pre-shared key and click Ok. Next, click IPsec Settings to enter the pre-shared key for the connection. Next, enter the VPN connection details (gateway IP address or hostname, username and password) you received from the system administrator, in the following window. Then select Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) option from the pop-up window. Next, add a new VPN connection by clicking on the (+) sign. Once the package installation is complete, click on your Network Manager icon, then go to Network Settings. On RHEL/CentOS and Fedora Linux, use the following dnf command to install L2TP module. $ sudo apt-get install network-manager-l2tp network-manager-l2tp-gnome $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nm-l2tp/network-manager-l2tp To install the L2TP module on Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions, use the following PPA. ![]() It provides support for L2TP and L2TP/IPsec. To add an L2TP/IPsec option to the NetworkManager, you need to install the NetworkManager-l2tp VPN plugin which supports NetworkManager 1.8 and later. How to Setup L2TP VPN Connection in Linux This guide assumes that the L2TP/IPsec VPN server has been set up and that you have received the following VPN connection details from your organization’s or company’s system administrator. In this article, we will show how to set up an L2TP/IPSec VPN connection in Ubuntu and its derivatives and Fedora Linux. The L2TP does not provide any authentication or encryption mechanisms directly to traffic that passes through it, it is usually implemented with the IPsec authentication suite ( L2TP/IPsec) to provide encryption within the L2TP tunnel. It is implemented in most if not all modern operating systems including Linux and VPN-capable devices. L2TP (which stands for Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) is a tunneling protocol designed to support virtual private networks (VPN connections) over the internet. ![]()
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