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Hi, It's on 6.41rc47, as L2TP/IPSEC VPN client: on average the throughput is very low, at start of speed tests the throughput goes high but then plummets.. A weird thing noticed: the throughput improves considerably when I run the Packet Sniffer on the L2TP interface! Does anyone have an insight int...

Hi,

I've finally succeeded to make it work!

However, the connection is *slow* ;-( l2tp/ipsec with the Windows 10 native VPN client works fine, providing a good speed.

Would anyone have a clue on what would be wrong in the setup?

Thanks!

Hi All, I still cannot make it work with NordVPN. My L2TP/IPSEC setup works fine with another VPN service; Windows10 VPN client works fine on L2TP/IPSEC with NordVPN. So Is L2TP/IPSEC currently working with NordVPN for anybody, on a Mikrotik router? Can you share your configuration for that? Thanks!

... the IPSEC set up is dynamic, IPSEC policy status progresses up to "msg1 sent", ..

Let me add that the SAs stay in the larval state.

Thanks.

... But there is no reason why L2TP/Ipsec will not work. Good! Tried setting up in different ways, still no luck. something (some parameter?) is bring it all sideways.. For example, have set up a l2tp client requiring IPSEC => the IPSEC set up is dynamic, IPSEC policy status progresses up to "...

According to this: https://nordvpn.com/tutorials/ it supports OVPN TCP, PPTP, IKE2, L2TP/Ipsec. All of these protocols are supported by RouterOS, so can be used with nordvpn. According to that site, Mikrotik supports PPTP only. I've tried to set up the others - no success. From what I gathered, the...

Hi All,

Is L2TP/IPSEC currently working with NordVPN for anybody, on a Mikrotik router? Can you share your configuration for that?

Thanks much.

Hi,

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My setup works as follows:-

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In this setup, your l2tp runs *without* IPSEC, even you have configured the latter.