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BradJessup
May 08, 2017Aspirant
Connecting to Fortinet VPN Server through Orbi Wifi
I just purchased and installed a new RBK50 Orbi Wifi Router and Satellite. It is working great. Good coverage, solid internet connection with numerous devices. However, when I tried to connec...
BradJessup
May 08, 2017Aspirant
As for errors,
On my laptop (connected to Orbi via wifi) when I tried to connect using Fortinet Client a popup appears saying somethnig vague like "could not establish VPN connection".
On both my laptop and desktop (connected to Orbi via ethernet cable) when I tried to ping the VPN server it returned immediately with "Ping request could not find host gate2.gallium.com. Please check the name and try again."
The odd thing is, when I selected the Enable VPN Service a popup appeared saying I should set Dynamic DNS or a Static IP. I closed the popup (and did not set Dynamic DNS or Statis IP) and the Enable VPN Service still showed selected. Then I was using the VPN for a while. Then decided to turn it off to see if VPN still worked (and get the error message to put here). I went into Orbi settings and the Enable button was off now. I then tried conencting to VPN and it worked fine. Weird.
So as far as I can tell, VPN Service is not on yet my VPN client is now working fine. Maybe attempting to turn VPN service on opened up a port that the VPN client needed which is now still open.
Anyway, I guess my problem is solved, though I don't know how I solved it.
tomsliwowski
May 08, 2017Apprentice
Just as an FYI, the "Enable VPN Service" option is to make your router an OpenVPN endpoint. It's not a setting to allow outbound VPN sessions.