Sharing a L2TP/IPSec from "home"

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Hello,

I would need to put online a home server sharing a L2TP/IPSec connection with which one I can connect from everywhere with a MAC (and Mac allows only L2TP/IPSec or IKEv2).

I only find tutorials to create a connection online (on could services) but I want to create mine from home. Would you have any tips ?

Thanks,

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So you want to have a L2TP/IPSec server running at home?

I’m a little confused at what you are asking.

If so, what do you have to host the VPN server?

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Windows RRAS is easy to setup, but if you’re not married to L2TP and would use anything that works well on a Mac, OpenVPN would be a good alternative.

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You could download openvpn client on your Mac and setup an openvpn server at home.

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L2TP/IPSEC sucks balls, especially certain implementations of it. That said, there are a p,ethora of cheap firewalls available on eBay for as little as $10 that can do it. Some, like some old Watchguards, can do SSL VPN too, which is infinitely better. Use the Tunnel Blick client and import and oven config from the Watchguards download page and boom! Done, forget L2TP.

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pfsense + ikev2 ipsec vpn. easy to implement. although ideally it should be your main router at home, so you can access the whole lan network over vpn. It’s doable if it’s not, but thats a bit more challenging (static routes and whatnot)

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Just an old computer. I manage to create a local softether server that is working with Windows but not with Mac. I don’t know why.

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Thanks I’ll have a look

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Thanks I’ll have a look tomorrow. Would you have any tutorial to share for a noob ? I don’t find the website very intuitive.

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Just an old computer. I manage to create a local softether server that is working with Windows but not with Mac. I don’t know why.

What software is on this ‘old computer’?

How much speed do you need? What do you use for your home router/gateway

Be very careful with SoftEther… I’ve had many compromised, not sure how/why…

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It serves the same purpose, is easier to setup and supported on Mac. What would you propose to OP instead?

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So yes I’d like a L2TP/IPSec server running at home, and for that I use an old laptop with nothing interresting on it except my fresh Softether server that I created today. For now I can connect in L2TP/IPSec with Windows (with an other laptop) but not with my Mac. About speedconnection I don’t care at all. I just need the VPN to access a few data sometimes while abroad.