Re: Site to Site VPN Connection Using L2TP/IPSec by Pre-shared Key

  • From: "Roy Tsao" <roy_tsao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:39:29 -0700

> Dear Tom,
> 
> There are two articles presented by you at Microsoft website:
> 
>   "Creating A Site-to-Site L2TP/IPSec VPN Between ISA2004 VPN Gateays: Hotw 
> to Configure the Pre-shared Key"
> 
>   "ISA Server 2004 VPN Deployment Kit"
> 
> I am quite confused in the these two:
> 1) In the first one, you mentiond 
>    "If you have a cerficate installed on this computer and you enable the 
> pre-shared key option, then the pre-shared key
>    will always be used" 
>    but the later one said Pre-shared key is just a backup when certificate 
> failed
>    which is correct?
> 2) Also in the first one, 
>    "if you do not have a cerficate installed, and you decide to use a 
> pre-shared key as backup,
>     the site-to-site VPN connection will fail. Do not seclect the Allow 
> pre-shared key IPSec authentication as
>     a secondary (backup) authentication method option, even if you do not 
> have a certificate installed on this
>     computer"
>    But there is a illustration in the 2nd article showing check option of 
> pre-shared key option as a secondary
>    authentication method.
>    What is the correct way to have L2TP/IPSec VPN by pre-shared key without 
> certificate
> 3) My problem in creating site to site VPN connection 
>    Could succeeded in creating site to site by PPTP, but whenever I switch 
> into L2TP/IPSec with pre-shared
>    key, the connection always fails. The log shows "No response from remote 
> computer against L2TP dial-in
>    authentication", what's wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roy Tsao


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