How to Setup L2TP on Kali Linux

Follow the instructions to enable PureVPN on your Kali Linux with L2TP protocol. Here’s how to proceed.

1 Go to the ‘Menu’ option and search and open the ‘Terminal Emulator’.

2 Now you need to install L2TP packages. Type the following commands one by one:

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install network-manager-l2tp-gnome
• sudo apt-get install xl2tpd

3 Now Select the following options:

• Click on “Ethernet Network Connection“
• Go to “VPN Connections”
• Select “Add a VPN Connection…”

4 Select ‘Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)’ option. Click the “Create” button.

5 When a new window appear, complete the fields as below:

• Insert Connection name: PureVPN
• Insert Gateway: usca.pointtoserver.com (you can use your desired server address here,  in order to see the complete list click here)
• Insert Username provided by PureVPN
• Insert Password provided by PureVPN

6 Click IPsec Settings

Check ‘Enable Ipsec tunnel to IPsec host’

Pre-share key: 12345678

Then specify connection algorithms in Advanced section:

For phase 1= 3des-sha1-modp1024

For phase 2 = 3des-sha1

Click OK

7 Go to the ‘PPP Settings…’ button

Allow the following options:

• MSCHAP
• MSCHAP2

Also, select the following:

• Allow BSD data compression
• Allow Deflate data compression
• Use TCP header compression

Сlick “OK” then “Save”.

8 Now go to Ethernet Network Connections option and under VPN Connections click/check on the newly created PureVPN connection to activate VPN.

9 Viola! You are now connected to PureVPN.