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Configuring L2TP VPN on Huawei Devices

This guide provides a step‑by‑step configuration for setting up an L2TP VPN on Huawei equipment, covering ACL rules, IP pools, user authentication, interface settings, virtual templates, PPP parameters, static routing, and related commands.

Practical DevOps Architecture

May 11, 2015

Use L2TP VPN, configuration as follows:

#
l2tp enable
#
acl number 2001
rule 5 permit source 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255
#
ip pool lns
gateway-list 192.168.1.1
network 192.168.1.0 mask 255.255.255.0
#
aaa
local-user huawei password cipher abc@123
local-user huawei server-type ppp
#
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/0
ip address 202.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
nat outbound 2001
#
interface Virtual-Template1

Set PPP authentication mode to PAP.

ppp authentication-mode pap

Additional L2TP and routing configuration:

remote address pool lns
ppp ipcp dns 10.10.10.10
ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
#
l2tp-group 1
undo tunnel authentication
allow l2tp virtual-template 1
#
ip route-static 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 202.1.1.2
#
return

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