Libreswan-xl2tpd

Version

Currently v0.2

About

L2TPD/IPSEC is method of connecting to your Koozali SME server. It is a suitable replacement for the existing PPTP VPN system on Koozali SME Server.

L2TPD/IPSEC does not need any special software configuration on your clients. It is supported on a very large number of modern mobile phones and laptops. Please note that not every phone or device will support L2TPD/IPSEC out of the box.

Once implemented you can disable PPTP, which will be good for you and your users.

Notes

The contrib basically works but there can be complications when you want to combine it with standard host-host ipsec connections. The issue that 'may' arise is if an IPSEC connection is matched prior to the L2TPD one. I do have them both running on my test box but need more feedback on this.

These links discuss the implementation and the creation of this page. https://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,53021.0/all.html

https://github.com/reetp/smeserver-libreswan-xl2tpd/blob/master/ipsecXl2tpd.Notes

Please report any problems by adding a note to this issue in Bugzilla:

https://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8890

Installation for testing

	Warning:
	Please test thoroughly on a test server before deploying in production .

	Note:
	Server MUST be in Server/Gateway mode for this to be enabled

You need my repo and the EPEL repo to test install.

https://wiki.contribs.org/User:ReetP https://wiki.contribs.org/Epel

yum --enablerepo=reetp,epel install smeserver-libreswan-xl2tpd

That should bring everything in, including ipsec which is required

signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot

Configuration settings

You need at least one user on the system - for testing it can be admin. The user account needs VPN Client Access enabled in the Server Manager

Keys

• IPRange Start/Finish
  

An IP range from your server.
Note it MUST NOT conflict with IPs issued by your DHCP server

• rightsubnet
  

The subnet of the remote / dialin network

• passwd
  

IPsec pre shared key as per db connection below.
Make it long and complicated !

• DNS
  

defaults to the SME server. Can add extra servers if required

• debug
  

defaults to disabled

Create connection

	Note:
	There can only be ONE Ipsec L2TPD connection

Create a connection on the server:

Here we assume your local network is 192.168.101.x

db ipsec_connections set L2TPD-PSK xl2tpd \ 
     status disabled \
     IPRangeStart 192.168.101.180 \
     IPRangeFinish 192.168.101.200  \
     rightsubnet 192.168.101.0/24 \
     passwd somesecret \
     dpdaction clear \
     dpddelay 10 \
     dpdtimeout 90

	Note:
	You CAN change some values as IPRangeStart and IPRangeFinish but you need to keep same subnet. So if you change 101 on IPRangeStart, you must change it on IPRangeFinist and rightsubnet too!

Make sure the Start and Finish addresses do NOT conflict with your server dhcp range. You can see your server dhcpd range with:

config show dhcpd

Now we can enable the required services which will automatically add the correct firewall ports.

config setprop xl2tpd status enabled
config setprop ipsec status enabled
signal-event ipsec-update

	Note:
	Ipsec has access private as default; if you want to connect from wan, you need to change it to public

Create a connection from a device:

Connection type: L2TP/IPSec PSK
Server IP : Your server IP address
IPsec preshared key : as per passwd set above
Username : Any user on your server with VPN Access set to Enabled
Password : adminpassword (the password for the above  user)

You can regenerate the server templates with:

signal-event remoteaccess-update

Note that this this will not stop or restart ipsec. Use ipsec-update to do this:

signal-event ipsec-update

Stop the service

config setprop xl2tpd status disabled
config setprop ipsec status disabled
signal-event ipsec-update

Disable PPTP

Once the implementation is complete and functional, you do NOT need PPTP enabled. You can go to your server manager and disable it forever and sing a thousand hallelujahs for secure communications ;-)

config setprop pptpd status disabled sessions 0

Bugs

Currently the code is not in CVS.

You can add to the bug noted above or ask in the forums.

The contrib basically works but there can be complications when you want to combine it with standard host-host ipsec connections. The issue that 'may' arise is if an IPSEC connection is matched prior to the L2TPD one.

I do have them both running on my test box but need more feedback on this.

The code probably needs reviewing and cleaning up by a greater mind than mine :-)

ToDo

As of 0.2-4 you can enable or disable VPN access for users via the Server Manager. A VPN Access Group may be worth looking at in the future

Add server manager panel (with an IPsec panel too)