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添加L2TP接口to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 4:03 pm

I have succeded setting up a VPN dial-in to an MT router from a Win XP client computer using L2TP/IPSec with PSK.
客户端连接好,得到一个IP address in the same range as the LAN side of the Mikrotik router, and I'm able to ping from the client computer to computers in the LAN. So far so good.

But how do I manage to pass on broadcast traffic between the VPN client to the LAN and vice versa? I can see UDP broadcast to ports 137/138 (Netbios) arriving at the router, but I don't know how to pass it on to the LAN computers. The LAN computers are all connected to a bridge containing ether2..ether5.

I thought I should be able to add the L2TP to this bridge as well, by specifying the bridge in the Bridge parameter of the PPP policy, but it never shows up.
是在论坛上提到的关于启用BCP on both sides of a PPP tunnel , but the far end of this connection is in Windows XP and I dunno what I can do there.

How do I add the L2TP interface to the bridge?

Or are there any other tricks that can be used to enable access to network browsing and shared printers/disk drives from the client?

This is the setup:
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[admin@MT] > ppp secret export # feb/12/2009 14:42:42 by RouterOS 3.20 # software id = 93B9-LTT # /ppp secret add caller-id="" comment="" disabled=no limit-bytes-in=0 limit-bytes-out=0 \ name=12345 password=12345 profile=L2TP-profile routes="" service=l2tp [admin@MT] > ppp profile export # feb/12/2009 14:42:48 by RouterOS 3.20 # software id = 93B9-LTT # /ppp profile add bridge=bridge1 change-tcp-mss=default comment="" local-address=\ 192.168.1.150 name=L2TP-profile only-one=default remote-address=\ 192.168.1.200 use-compression=default use-encryption=default \ use-vj-compression=default [admin@MT] > interface pr Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave # NAME TYPE MTU 0 R ether1 ether 1500 1 ether2 ether 1500 2 R ether3 ether 1500 3 ether4 ether 1500 4 R ether5 ether 1500 5 R bridge1 bridge 1500 6 R pppoe-out1 pppoe-out 1480 7 DR  l2tp-in 1400 [admin@MT] > interface bridge pr Flags: X - disabled, R - running 0 R name="bridge1" mtu=1500 arp=proxy-arp mac-address=00:0C:42:2E:BD:01 protocol-mode=none priority=0x8000 auto-mac=yes admin-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 max-message-age=20s forward-delay=15s transmit-hold-count=6 ageing-time=5m [admin@MT] > interface bridge port pr Flags: X - disabled, I - inactive, D - dynamic # INTERFACE BRIDGE PRIORITY PATH-COST HORIZON 0 I ether2 bridge1 0x80 10 none 1 ether3 bridge1 0x80 10 none 2 I ether4 bridge1 0x80 10 none 3 ether5 bridge1 0x80 10 none [admin@MT] > ip address pr Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic # ADDRESS NETWORK BROADCAST INTERFACE 0 192.168.1.1/24 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.255 bridge1 1 D XX.XXX.176.81/32 XX.XX.34.0 0.0.0.0 pppoe-out1 2 D 192.168.1.150/32 192.168.1.200 0.0.0.0  [admin@MT] > ip route pr Flags: X - disabled, A - active, D - dynamic, C - connect, S - static, r - rip, b - bgp, o - ospf, m - mme, B - blackhole, U - unreachable, P - prohibit # DST-ADDRESS PREF-SRC GATEWAY-STATE GATEWAY DISTANCE INTERFACE 0 ADS 0.0.0.0/0 reachable 88.88.34.0 1 pppoe-out1 1 ADC XX.XX.34.0/32 XX.XX.176.81 0 pppoe-out1 2 ADC 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1 0 bridge1 3 ADC 192.168.1.200/32 192.168.1.150 0 
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 5:09 pm

是在论坛上提到的关于启用BCP on both sides of a PPP tunnel , but the far end of this connection is in Windows XP and I dunno what I can do there.

How do I add the L2TP interface to the bridge?
That is true you need BCP enabled on both ends otherwise this feature will not work. I'm not sure if it is possible with windows machine.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:31 pm

Hmmm...not sure if that's possible either. Anyway thanks for info!

Are there other ways around to pass L2TP broadcast traffic on to the LAN side bridge?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 6:41 pm

yeah you can't add an l2tp tunnel to a bridge unless there is a 1500 byte MTU I believe.

Can you turn on proxy-arp on the bridge1 interface ?

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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:47 pm

Yes, Proxy-ARP is enabled.

Can I specify 1500 bytes MTU manually for the L2TP connection?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:11 pm

you can on MT 3.x, just change the MRRU to 1600 (has to be more than 1500 for overhead...) I have no idea if Windows XP (client) will deal with that properly or not.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:08 am

I found a way to change MTU for VPN connections by adding some registry settings, but no use - MTU of L2TP connection was still 1400.:(

If it is true that all it takes to be able to add the L2TP interface to the bridge, is succeding in rising the MTU to 1500 - then I guesss somebody here must have succeded in it?
A L2TP VPN connection from a WinXP client cannot be THAT odd?:shock:

Please, any other trick that can help me forward the broadcast traffic from the L2TP interface to the bridge so I can enable disk and printer sharing?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:48 pm

Here is how I do it:

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and then:

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and then:

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Not sure if it will work with a non-Mikrotik system however... I am using it all the time. In earlier versions it seemed like the bridge would stop forwarding traffic after a few minutes however. I have not retested in a while.

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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:38 pm

Thank you changeip!

If I understand you right you are doing a tunnel between 2 MT devices and not a login from WinXP like me?
It's much easier when you have control over both sides.

So leaving MTU and MRU to default 1460 was ok?
I read somewhere that they had to be 1500 to be able to add the intf to the bridge?

I don't thing I'm very far from succeeding, but not quite there yet.

Another issue is NAT traversal.
I have checked the NAT-T checkbox in the IPSec peer, but I'm not even able to traverse my MT boxes, it works only when I have a public IP at the XP computer.

At the time I'm doing double-NAT, i.e. Internet ---->MT w/NAT ---->MT w/NAT---->Client computer
Is that beyond what should be possibe to accomplish?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:52 am

Hmmm...not sure if that's possible either. Anyway thanks for info!

Are there other ways around to pass L2TP broadcast traffic on to the LAN side bridge?
This may sound like an obvious question but why don't you just use routing? Why the need for the bridge?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sat Feb 14, 2009 4:17 pm

This may sound like an obvious question but why don't you just use routing? Why the need for the bridge?
I'm not sure how to setup routes for the broadcast traffic.
Can you help me?
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:24 pm

If you need it only for NetBIOS, eg. Network Neighborhood, than better set up WINS service on your network and configure WinXP hosts to use it. You can find WINS service on MS Windows Server products (eg. MS Windows 2000 Advanced Server), or in Samba package. Most Linux distributions have this package.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Mar 04, 2010 4:34 pm

Any news on this?

I'd like to use the native xp client, to connect with pptp/l2tp to a mikrotik router, and to get assigned to the lan bridge.
Even though everything is set up correctly, and the connection is up, the pptp client interface on the mikrotik does not get automatically added to the bridge, and neither can I add it manually. It does not show up in birdge/ports.

I know this works with ovpn, but I'd like to use windows native pptp/l2tp.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:54 pm

have you got an open support ticket already? =)
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:39 am

Nope, never done that before (:
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:44 am

I dont think Windows can bridge an L2TP/PPTP tunnel... if you have two mikrotiks it works fine (have to set MRRU > 1500), but Windows can't do that I believe. I am using this all the time on Mikrotik to Mikrotik links, but couldn't make it work with Windows. Probably has to do with the MRRU / MTU. You could try setting your bridge to 1400 MTU and see if that helps or not...
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:42 pm

I don't need Windows to bridge the pptp connection. I want RouterOS to bridge it!

E.g.: bridge-lan should contain ether2 and pptp-ppp1 in the router.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:49 am

correct, but in order to bridge to ethernet you need the same MTU... which your not going to get with Windows unless you lower everything else. Windows doesnt support MRRU does it? Im saying the bridge port wont join until the MTUs match...
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:47 am

It's awesome that this is possible, thanks to MikroTik.

Now, How to reduce overhead?:)For small VoIP packets, the resultant encapsulated packet looks twice the size.

Help!:)
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:40 am

have you tried IP -> Packing?.. =)
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:50 am

Excellent idea.
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[SOLVED] Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Thu Jan 17, 2013 3:03 pm

I finally worked out how to do this with the great help and support from Linitx who supplied my RB750 in the UK

You need to configure the local-address in your ppp profile as the lan address of the router on your private network, and the remote-address as the same dhcp pool you use on the private network.

Then the key step is to set proxy-arp on the private network interface.

It now works so that my Andriod is now on the same private LAN as my other servers, although it doesn't show up in the bridge port listing the proxy-arp gets it to work.
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Re: Add L2TP interface to bridge - how?

Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:08 pm

yep I do not approve this design though :]
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