VPN tunnel into HAMNET on Fedora 36
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Since none of the found instructions worked for me: here are my settings of my VPN tunnel into HAMNET. I’m currently using Fedora 36 on my main notebook and Fedora removed PPTP support back in Fedora 35 – I could not get the PPTP tunnel working.
L2TP client #
I found a document that shows the creation of an L2TP tunnel on MacOS and I used that as my starting point.
First of all, install NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome:
$ sudo dnf install NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome
After that, create the new VPN tunnel in Settings
→ Network
→ VPN
.
Click the + button and select Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
and fill in the settings that you got from your Administrator (usually where
you got your login data). I got mine from
RWTH Aachen in Germany.
![basic settings](/posts/2022/29-vpn-tunnel-into-hamnet-on-fedora-36/hamnetvpn01_hu4301011dc0d201c95c76959e67e53508_36400_660x0_resize_box_3.png)
![IPv4 settings](/posts/2022/29-vpn-tunnel-into-hamnet-on-fedora-36/hamnetvpn02_hu72067f5dcba0d8f7d620f4972da85369_40765_660x0_resize_box_3.png)
![IPv6 settings](/posts/2022/29-vpn-tunnel-into-hamnet-on-fedora-36/hamnetvpn03_huf6ac5b1a05c185fbf19086ca763af739_34412_660x0_resize_box_3.png)
![IPSec settings](/posts/2022/29-vpn-tunnel-into-hamnet-on-fedora-36/hamnetvpn04.png)
![PPP settings](/posts/2022/29-vpn-tunnel-into-hamnet-on-fedora-36/hamnetvpn05.png)
More information #
I’ve also found some more links – just when I finished formatting this article.
It looks like the following article is online since 2018; but I found this after I started using the L2TP tunnel that I just created a few hours before. It describes the setup of an OpenVPN client, but it is limited to users with a static HAMNET IP address.
- Original article found on HAMNET
http://web.db0sda.ampr.org/projekte/hamnet/anwendungen/vpn-zugang/openvpn-hamnet-dial-in - Also available on normal internet
https://www.afu.rwth-aachen.de/projekte/hamnet/anwendungen/vpn-zugang/openvpn-hamnet-dial-in