Good ol' VPN (L2TP/IPsec setup question)

[thormolecules]

I hope this is a simple question. I was following the directions here with the hopes of setting up a VPN server:

http://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/l2tp-ipsec- ... ile-phones

I have several iOS clients which is why I can't use OpenVPN (sadly). Everything seemed to be ok until I got to the point where it says to install xl2tpd, and then I ran into this:

Collected errors:
* satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for xl2tpd:
* kernel (= 3.3.8-1-5440da3a2c45184a32da6bba25b8dd2a) * kernel (= 3.3.8-1-5440da3a2c45184a32da6bba25b8dd2a) *
* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package xl2tpd.

My magical powers of deduction tell me that xl2tpd doesn't jive well with the kernel version used in 1.5.9. So, my question is if I force the package to install, will it work anyway? I don't know enough to judge whether this is one of those things you can safely ignore/skip and I'd rather not find out the hard way.

Or, if anyone has a different but also easily-digestible tutorial they could point me to, I would be just as happy.

Thanks for any responses.

[Odi]

I just bought a TP-WDR3600 and will be looking to do this as well. I used to run Tomato with my RT-N16, using OpenVPN and jailbroken iOS devices. However, with iOS 6 not having an untethered jailbreak, I want an alternative solution.

If you don't want to compile gargoyle from source, you can try overriding the dependencies, which seemed to work here for the same dependency failure:

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... pkg#p16223

However, if you are willing to compile gargoyle from source, then this would be the cleaner way:

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... pkg#p16201

[Odi]

Just FYI, I was slacking on doing this and noticed that the app store now has an openvpn client!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openvpn ... d590379981

Also, instead of installing gargoyle, I ended up doing just OpenWRT and setting most things up via ssh / luci. That way, I can install many custom packages without re-compiling.