The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide

Configuring the Windows VPN Client

Once the Windows L2TP/IPsec client is running, you are ready to create a connection profile to protect traffic from the client to the corporate office. Creating a connection profile is done in four steps:

1.	Obtaining certificates (optional—obtaining certificates on Microsoft Windows desktops is beyond the scope of this book; please consult your local Microsoft administrator for more details): for Windows 2000 and earlier, you will need certificates to use L2TP/IPsec—pre-shared keys are not supported
2.	Creating a security policy
3.	Requiring the use of IPsec for L2TP
4.	Creating a VPN connection

The following sections will discuss the last three steps in more depth.

Creating a Security Policy

Before you ...