NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
BR200 not "currently" working with existing OSX Server VPN
Hello America, I hope you are all well. After 9 years of using an Apple Airport Extreme as a router in addition to 3 other Extremes being used as access points, we decided to upgrade our router t...
Hello,
The port forwarding rules appear to be correc as the traffic would hit the IP ending in .225.
IPSEC is it's own VPN however the BR200 only does site to site IPSEC and you cannot use it as a client to site solution. What resources are being accessed on the Mac server that is needing to be accessed remotely? Do you know if you are able to access the resouces locally?
Hello,
Is the Apple Airport Extreme still functioning as a router?
IE: Devices still connecting to the Airport, and the Airport routes the traffic out to the BR200? or is the Airport only functioning as a VPN to the devices that are behind the VPN?
Do you have a screenshot of the firewall rules and how it is setup that you can send me?
Thank you for the reply.
The BR200 replaced our trusty Extreme. The old Extreme was retired as a router and was converted to a wireless access point set to bridge mode. We fired up the BR200 quickly with DHCP. Then we added port forwards for AFP 548 and VNC 5900, and that worked instantly.
We then turned our attention to connecting to our OSX Server which was always running during our upgrade with VPN on.
We set port forwarding for 500, 1701 and 4500 with comma's, but whenever we tried to edit the rule, we got errors. So we separated them into three rules to get around that. This is exactly how it was setup on the old Extreme router, except the Extreme required a single IPsec checkbox to be selected.
Not that I know what IPsec is, but could that be an issue? Same with DNS, we have a Netgear DNS account if needed.
Hello,
The port forwarding rules appear to be correc as the traffic would hit the IP ending in .225.
IPSEC is it's own VPN however the BR200 only does site to site IPSEC and you cannot use it as a client to site solution. What resources are being accessed on the Mac server that is needing to be accessed remotely? Do you know if you are able to access the resouces locally?
Your point about the BR200 not being a site-to-client solution explains why we cannot connect to our OSX Server VPN.
Yes, we can access all volumes from our server locally as well as screen share...and we can do that remotely as well. We knew that AFP will die someday, and since Comcast blocks SMB ports, we know simple remote file sharing will not work for us someday.
So VPN was a nice to have for when that day occurred. I will consider the questioned answered. Thank you kindly and breathe well.
NETGEAR Academy
Boost your skills with the Netgear Academy - Get trained, certified and stay ahead with the latest Netgear technology!
Join Us!
