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train_wreck
Aug 31, 2016Luminary
L2TP/IPsec - Android to FVS336Gv3 - "the length of the isakmp header is too big"
I am using the guide I made to configure L2TP/IPsec on the FVS336Gv3: https://community.netgear.com/t5/VPN-Firewalls/FVS336Gv3-L2TP-IPsec-on-Windows-10/m-p/1063257#M4362 Windows clients are ...
DaneA
Sep 01, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi train_wreck,
Kindly post images or screenshots that shows that the throughput is slow when your Android phones are connected via L2TP VPN to the FVS336Gv3 as well as the VPN Logs you have mentioned.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
- train_wreckSep 04, 2016Luminary
Here is an iperf from my Win10 PC (172.16.16.10) to the phone (192.168.251.14); the phone is a Galaxy S4 running nothing but the "iperf for Android" app shown here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magicandroidapps.iperf . Bandwidth starts decently fast for around 10 seconds, but then there is a 10 second period of no traffic, followed by decent bandwidth, followed by a disconnect in the iperf program. Immediately after the disconnect, there was another ~10 second period of no traffic to/from the phone. I can re-run this test without the VPN connected and I get consistently high bandwidth with no periods of loss.
Here are the logs you requested. IP addresses have been blanked. As I refresh the logs, this "isakmp" message appears roughly once every 10-30 seconds:
Is there an official recommended way of connecting an Android phone to an FVS336G via IPsec? If so, I haven't been able to find one, and this is the only gateway I've ever used that had so much trouble with the built-in Android VPN client. As an aside, I tried using a different IPsec VPN client on Android with an app called "NCP", as some other posters have said good things about it. I have identitcal problems with that VPN app as well.
- DaneASep 04, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi train_wreck,
Here is the article I have below. However, it is about PPTP VPN.
How to Configure PPTP VPN between Android and ProSAFE Firewall
Hope this would help.
Regards,
DaneA
NETGEAR Community Team
- train_wreckSep 04, 2016Luminary
Thanks, but that doesn't really help. PPTP is long known to be a horribly insecure and broken protocol, and should not be used today. Also, the thread topic is specifically concerning IPsec.
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