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Why PPTP, L2TP, PPPOE are in OSI Layer2?
PPTP, PPPoE, and L2TP all provide OSI Layer 2 services. That is, the user of these protocols (usually, a network layer protocol suite) thinks it's running over a "normal" link layer. ...
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What is the difference between L2TP vs GRE
L2tp and GRE are totally diffrent protocols
GRE is a simple IP packet encapsulation protocol. a GRE tunnel is used when packets need to be sent from one network to another, without being parsed or ...
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PPPoE vs L2TP protocols
The most and noticeable different is layer of tunneling. PPPOE is a Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) tunneling protocol while L2TP is a Layer 3 (Network Layer) tunneling protocol. This means that PPPOE can ...
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Is L2TP really a Layer 2 protocol?
Fixed layer count models and tunneling don't match up very well.
Our stack might look something like.
Appliction data.
TCP (inner network)
IP (inner network)
Ethernet framing (inner network)
L2TPv3
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How do protocols like PPTP, L2TP work below IP level
In real life, you can't stick to the OSI model entirely. It's helpful and necessary as a guide on how to structure the components in a complex network but you can't always say that's layer x.
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What's the difference between L2TP and L2TPv3?
Let's say that it is a 'new protocol heavily based on L2TPv2'. It shares a lot of the messages, constructs, flows with L2TPv2 but it is not strictly backwards compatible. It does have an L2TP '...
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Why is L2TP based on PPP and not PPPoE?
PPP is independent of the underlying transport, PPPoE requires to be run on Ethernet (or a like tunnel). But of course, you can also run L2TP with PPPoE (RFC 3817).
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Is L2TP really a Layer 2 protocol?
Tunneling protocols like L2TP, GRE, IPSEC and MPLS don't fit well into the OSI model. L2TP tunnels (encapsulates) L2 frames in UDP so it can be transported over layer 3.
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L2tp/IPSEC vs pure IPSEC
The same question was asked on the Information Security SE. Here's my answer to that question:
L2TP/IPSec uses IPsec to protect the L2TP tunnel. So the real question
is, why use L2TP?
Layer ...
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Cisco ASR1006 QoS on pppoe session: Police percent not supported - no bandwidth for percent calculation
What works for us (ASR 1001X) is the following concept (paraphrased config, syntax might be slightly different).
The idea is to have a shaper in the parent class, so the child classes have a reference ...
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How to configure L2TP Client on Juniper SRX?
As mentioned here, Juniper SRX cannot act as L2TP client.
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Cisco ISR L2TP VPN local vs radius authentication problem
I found the problem. I did not think this would be it so I overlooked it multiple times but after trying it, it worked. I feel so silly now.
On the virtual template 1 I changed
ppp authentication ms-...
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How to centrally manage customer site's and users that have access to customer site's
Forget L2 VPN, it doesn't scale. Use routed/L3 VPN.
Create a global addressing plan, so customer networks are all uniquely addressed. Allow space for future growth. If there's ambiguity, resolve it by ...
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VyOS: Failure to commit after L2TPv3 configuration
K, it turned out that the version I was using is no longer supported! using the latest stable release I managed to achieve the L2TPv3 tunnel and pass traffic through it.
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Cisco ASA: virtual Pool IP not filtered via ACL
There are at least three ways I can think of to fix this issue, and I would attempt a solution in the following order:
Craft your NAT statements differently (or remove the applicable NAT) so that the ...
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Network Tunneling - why do we need it?
To put it simply, tunneling is the process of encapsulating data (think of it as putting inside a capsule) into another form of data so the network devices directly interact with the outside capsule......
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GRE over IPSec vs L2TP over IPSEC
So I have found the answer a year later while I was reading about IKEv1 vs IKEv2.
L2TP/IPSec makes it possible to use a username/password, because L2TP is built on top of ppp.
With GRE, that wouldn'...
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Vyatta/EdgeOS remote access VPN without NAT?
I was in contact with ubiquiti support and got this response:
Unfortunately, it isn't possible to configure the remote access VPN (L2TP/IPSEC) on Edgerouter to work when the client is not behind ...
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Cisco PPPoE over FA with L2TP client only (no IPSec)
I'm not very familiar with Cisco, but is it possible that you need to use "secret" instead of password @l2tp-class?
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