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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,
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.
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