Create an L2TP VPN Server in Windows Server 2016

Create an L2TP VPN Server in Windows 2016-39

I wanted to create a VPN server that I could use to access my home internet connection (Sky Fibre).  I chose L2TP for this task as I want to connect to the VPN fairly frequently with the iPhone/iPad.  As the IOS devices have a built in L2TP VPN client and I didn’t want to rely on a 3rd party one this made it an easy choice.  For Windows 10 machines connecting in to my VPN I setup an SSTP VPN connection on the same server.  The reason for this was that Windows 10 doesn’t play well with L2TP behind a NAT firewall.  The setup for the L2TP VPN is as below.

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