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Linux VPN choices for China?

BarryG
Hi,

China (Great Firewall) is now blocking SSL VPNs, or at least OpenVPN, according to several sources; I'm going there in a few weeks and would like to be able to use a netbook running Linux, without having 3/4 of the internet blocked.

One site, How To Bypass The Great Firewall Of China 2014 - GreyCoder, recommends using L2TP.

1. has anyone tried the L2TP over IPSEC connection in Linux?

2. from China, recently?

3. Looking at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/L2TP/IPsec_VPN_client_setup, there appear to be quite a few settings to get L2TP working...
Is there a recommended config for using OpenSwan (or some other Linux client) with the UTM?

Thank you,
Barry


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    Update:

    iOS Cisco client worked in China; disconnected every 15mins or so.

    OpenVPN SSL client (on Linux) failed to connect; sometimes asked for login/password but still failed; sometimes failed immediately.

    Did not try other IPSEC options.
    Did not try Linux Cisco client as VPNC is not compatible with UTM config.

    Barry
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    Update:

    iOS Cisco client worked in China; disconnected every 15mins or so.

    OpenVPN SSL client (on Linux) failed to connect; sometimes asked for login/password but still failed; sometimes failed immediately.

    Did not try other IPSEC options.
    Did not try Linux Cisco client as VPNC is not compatible with UTM config.

    Barry
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