xl2tpd outbound support on AWS

[mark-hayward]

I am trying to establish a IPSE L2TP VPN connection to another site from an AWS EC2 instance.
The only error I see is :
L2TP kernel support not detected (try modprobing l2tp_ppp and pppol2tp)

Will this prevent xl2tpd from establishing a session to a remote server?

root@ip-192-168-0-253:/usr/src# xl2tpd -D
xl2tpd[1329]: Not looking for kernel SAref support.
xl2tpd[1329]: L2TP kernel support not detected (try modprobing l2tp_ppp and pppol2tp)
xl2tpd[1329]: xl2tpd version xl2tpd-1.3.12rc1 started on ip-192-168-0-253 PID:1329
xl2tpd[1329]: Written by Mark Spencer, Copyright (C) 1998, Adtran, Inc.
xl2tpd[1329]: Forked by Scott Balmos and David Stipp, (C) 2001
xl2tpd[1329]: Inherited by Jeff McAdams, (C) 2002
xl2tpd[1329]: Forked again by Xelerance (www.xelerance.com) (C) 2006-2016
xl2tpd[1329]: Listening on IP address 0.0.0.0, port 1701
xl2tpd[1329]: Connecting to host 30.253.118.90, port 1701
xl2tpd[1329]: Maximum retries exceeded for tunnel 54477.  Closing.
xl2tpd[1329]: Connection 0 closed to 30.253.118.90, port 1701 (Timeout)

[shussain]

Is this still an issue @markhaywardnuvens ?

[mark-hayward]

No, I contacted aws and they said it's not supported on their kernels.
They claimed it may be possible by compiling a custom kernel but I took a different route. So this can be closed.