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. -- Death was familiar with the concept of the eternal, ever-renewed hero, the champion with a thousand faces. He'd refrained from commenting. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
