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Linux VPN choices for China?

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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0 pedja over 10 years ago

Hi,

The disconnects come from latency between the server and where you are located. I've had that issue with some of my users some time ago. Latency is fine for like 10-12 minutes then it jumps to 800-1000ms and it disconnects.

With ubuntu is easy (sandboxed environment I currently use for remote access):
1. sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon
2. reboot

I remember using this article:

Connecting to a L2TP/IPSec VPN from Ubuntu desktop |

HTH.

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0 pedja over 10 years ago

Hi,

The disconnects come from latency between the server and where you are located. I've had that issue with some of my users some time ago. Latency is fine for like 10-12 minutes then it jumps to 800-1000ms and it disconnects.

With ubuntu is easy (sandboxed environment I currently use for remote access):
1. sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn l2tp-ipsec-vpn-daemon
2. reboot

I remember using this article:

Connecting to a L2TP/IPSec VPN from Ubuntu desktop |

HTH.

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