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Aspirant

Jul 07, 2017

FVS336Gv3 PPTP VPN for macOS Sierra

Hi Netgear community, One of our sites has a NETGEAR ProSafe™ Gigabit Dual WAN SSL VPN Firewall FVS336Gv3 which has PPTP Server enabled and setup with working users for Windows OS, there is 1 use...

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jul 09, 2017

Hi sedcom_pm,

Welcome to our community!

Apple already dropped the support on PPTP, I don't think that if we run any PPTP 3rd party client it would still work. I may advise you to please try to give a call on apple support just to make sure what 3rd party application are we going to use that will work on your MAC OS Sierra.

Regards,

JohnC_V
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 12, 2017
sedcom_pm,

I would like to have a follow-up on this. If you were able to contact apple support and everything works ok now. Please keep us posted.

Regards,
- sedcom_pm
  Aspirant
  Jul 19, 2017
  Hi JohnCarloV,
  
  My user tried FlowVPN and that did not work (with PPTP), the user reports that it disconnects automatically.
  
  Do you have any instructions/step-by-step guide in setting up the SSL VPN for a user (who will be using a Mac), and also what client he needs to use on the Mac to make the SSL VPN connection. The Mac Clients are all asking for a certificate from the host server (The Netgear FVS336Gv3 in this case) but I am unable to generate one.
  
  Thanks in advance.
  - JohnC_V
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Jul 19, 2017
    sedcom_pm,
    
    My apologies but SSL VPN for Mac is not supported by our firewalls. We can only use IPSec tunnel for your MAC and even the VPN built-in app will work for this setup.
    
    Please refer to this manual for setting up the firewall and this link is for your MAC.
    
    Regards,