Gil has a good point, which is that PPTP is no longer considered secure. Don’t do it.
noam On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Gilbert Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:00 AM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 04 Mar 2014, at 10:24 , Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can you use something else as the vpn client, like a Mac laptop? Just >>> to see where the problem might be. >> >> Hmm. OK, that was unexpected. Works fine from the laptop. >> >> Same settings on the iPhone just times out without connecting. > > If you’re using L2TP (and you should be!) the ipsec connection has to be > established first, before being passed off to the authentication phases of > the process. The racoon daemon establishes the ipsec tunnel and logs to > system.log, not vpnd.log. If your client is talking to the VPN server at all > you’ll see some logs from racoon. vpnd also does some logging to system.log. > So, if you’re not seeing anything on the server side in /var/log/ppp/vpnd.log > double-check system.log for messages from racoon and vpnd (although from the > sound of what you’ve described I’d hazard the guess that you’ll only see logs > from racoon, if anything at all). > > As an aside, it’s important to focus on one kind of VPN at a time. L2TP/IPSEC > and PPTP two different beasts. From the thread it’s not clear to me which one > you are using in your tests. > > Gil > > Gilbert Wilson > Systems Administrator > The Omni Group > +1 206-523-4152 > +1 206-523-5896 (Fax) > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
