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An L2TP tunnel is established using the pre-agreed IP addresses, hostname and shared secret. Note that if your LNS rejects the tunnel connection, or fails to respond to the SCCRQ or a subsequent HELLO, then it will be black listedblock for 5 minutes allowing further connections to go to the fall-back LNSs.
 
Once the tunnel is established, a session is established for each connecting data SIM.
We've seen various devices give odd Connect Speed settings when they connect. EG, OSX sends:
Connect Speed: 1000000
And a Pfsense has been seen to send 10Mb10Mbit/s and even the source code had it hard coded to 10Mb10Mbit/s.
 
[[File:L2TP OS X speed weirdness.png|thumbnail|TCP Dump of OSX L2TP highlighting the 'Connect Speed']]
 
This means that it is asking for a 1Mb1Mbit/s connection. This does not looks like it's configurable either.
 
From May 2016 we ignore the Connect Speed, and simply limit the speed to 100Mb100Mbit/s at our side.
 
 
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