Morten, Can you open a web browser within your ec2 instance and go to ipchicken? Does the ip it detects match the static ip you assigned to the ec2 instance?
-Steve On Sep 19, 2013 1:20 PM, "Jim Harle" <[email protected]> wrote: > Morten – this sure sounds like your provider is intending for you to > establish a “site-to-site” tunnel between network equipment, as opposed to > a “client-to-gateway” connection. If it were the latter, than the provider > would be telling you how to make that connection and what client software > to use.**** > > ** ** > > Perhaps I’m over-simplifying, but that’s just how I read it.**** > > ** ** > > -Jim**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Morten Brix Pedersen > *Sent:* Monday, September 16, 2013 1:43 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [vpn-help] VPN setup**** > > ** ** > > Hi,**** > > ** ** > > I'm pretty new to VPN so I am looking for much appreciated help.**** > > ** ** > > We need to connect to an external system/API, which requires a > VPN-connection.**** > > From the provider we have received information on the ip address on the > VPN peer and a preshared key. Further we had to give them our public ip in > order to restrict connections from just our ip.**** > > ** ** > > I setup an AWS EC2 Instance (Windows) and installed Shrew Soft VPN. I am > then trying to connect to their ip with the preshared key using IPSec, but > the only thing showing up is:**** > > ** ** > > bringing up tunnel ...**** > > negotiation timout occurred**** > > tunnel disabled**** > > ** ** > > One thing I notice in the VPN Trace tool is that "Destination" is our > servers private ip address and not the public ip address that we gave them. > **** > > On AWS EC2, it does not seem possible to register the network interface > with the public ip. Is there a way to override this destination ip?**** > > ** ** > > How can I debug this further?**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > - Morten.**** > > _______________________________________________ > vpn-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shrew.net/mailman/listinfo/vpn-help > >
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