VPN MacOS client setup

morrisonkena,

Thanks for the update.  I apologize for the late response.  

I found another article online which is a bit different to the first one I've shared with regard to some settings configured.  Kindly access it below and try to follow the steps:

IP Securitas Os X – Netgear FVS336G VPN Settings 

Kindly delete the existing IKE & VPN policies then start over again.  Let us know the result.

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

Ken

11:42:37  Error       IKE   phase 2 negotiation failed due to time up waiting for phase1. ESP 136.24.0.247[500]->10.10/10/115[510]

About a year ago, I got exact same error message as you,  when connecting to a VPN created by Netgear Support just for me to test with

 "setup a IKE policy with mode config enabled in our laboratory"

my error message was:

Error IKE phase2 negotiation failed due to time up waiting for phase1. ESP 124.83.33.11[0]->192.168.1.198[0]

Netgear support are telling me that they received no connection attempt from my network.  It was at that point I have up on the whole idea of setting up a VPN and tossed it into the too hard basket. 

Did you ever get it working?

DaneA,

Thank you for the additional article with alternate settings. I did try those alternate settings, but also without sucess. The two articles had variations on similiar settings, which has suggested to me to play around a bit more with those settings, in hope of finding a combination that works. I'll update this thread with any successful findings.

Regards,

- Ken

genesearch,

DaneA, on this thread, has provided references to two articles purporting to have the configuration deteils I require. However I have tried both configuration settings sets without success. The similiarity of the settings between the two articles has me believig that I am close, so I will "play" with variations on these settings to see if I can break through. I will update the thread with news of any breaktrough. I'll also drop you a brief note as well. But then again, if after experimenting, I might also have need for the "too hard" bucket!

Still, given the growing popularlity of Macs, I find Netgears weak support for that platform baffling. There should be good, tested, instructions for setting up this VPN on the FVS336G ("with SSL and IPSec VPN") using MacOS. There also shoud be a MacOS version of Netgear Smart Control Center. One can hope NetGear comes to recognize this market.

- Ken

Ken

I have since got the VPN working using the above instructions and it worked,  however I didnt do anything different than last time.

Since I had updated both the Netgear router firmware and using Updated version of Ipsecuritas,  i can only assume that there was something wrong with older software.     Especially that I was gettin the same errors connecteding to the Netgear supports test VPN they created in their lab.