Re: VPN ins OS X Server 10.9

On Mar 4, 2014, at 10:00 AM, LuKreme <kremels-/[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=92re 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 sys=
tem.log, not vpnd.log. If your client is talking to the VPN server at all y=
ou=92ll see some logs from racoon. vpnd also does some logging to system.lo=
g. So, if you=92re not seeing anything on the server side in /var/log/ppp/v=
pnd.log double-check system.log for messages from racoon and vpnd (although=
 from the sound of what you=92ve described I=92d hazard the guess that you=
=92ll only see logs from racoon, if anything at all).

As an aside, it=92s important to focus on one kind of VPN at a time. L2TP/I=
PSEC and PPTP two different beasts. From the thread it=92s not clear to me =
which one you are using in your tests.

Gil

Gilbert Wilson
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