On 04 Mar 2014, at 10:24 , Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:03 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have VPN enabled in the OS X Server application in that it says it is 
>> active and running. When I look at the log files and try to connect to the 
>> vpn from my iPhone nothing appears in the logs and the connection times out.
>> 
>> This happens if I am on the LAN or not, which makes me think the vpn is not 
>> really working.
>> 
>> I've tried both L2TP and PPTP.
>> 
>      AFAIK, there are different phases in the VPN connection. First
> you connect, then authenticate, start tunnel, and go talk to the DHCP
> server. You should also be able to set the server side of the vpn mess
> in debug/verbose mode so you can see the connection as it takes place.
> 
> How do you look into it? I like to tail the relevant log file in a
> window while I try to connect.

Well, I was looking at the log file from within the Server app, and nothing was 
being logged, not even a connection attempt, so… not a lot there to look at and 
nothing to troubleshoot.

> Can you use something else as the vpn client, like a Mac laptop? Just
> to see where the problem might be.

I can look into how you setup the VPN on the laptop and see if anything gets 
logged.

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