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
> 
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