Setting Up the Windows 2000 Client

Setting Up the Windows 2000 Client

The conception of a VPN affiliation to be acclimated for L2TP follows the aforementioned accomplish as

for PPTP; the alone aberration is that you charge to baddest L2TP instead of PPTP.

Again, affidavit settings charge bout the settings on the PIX firewall.

Additionally, you charge to configure certificates and affidavit authorities that

are acclimated to authorize an IPsec tunnel. In Windows 2000, affidavit administration is

performed application the Certificates snap-in of the Microsoft Administration Console

(use mmc.exe to accessible C:\\winnt\\system32\\certmgr.msc). An archetype can be

found in Figure 7.17.

You charge to analysis that the affidavit of the CA the PIX uses is listed under

Trusted Root Certification Authorities. If it is not, you charge to access it from the

CA (the action depends on the CA but is usually simple) and acceptation it.You

have to do the aforementioned with the affidavit for your computer (it should be under

Personal).

For added details, see Microsoft abutment commodity Q253498, How to Install a

Certificate for Use with IP Security.A acceptable commodity about L2TP troubleshooting is

article Q259335, Basic L2TP/IPSec Troubleshooting in Windows.