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Aspirant

Jul 23, 2017

Set up vpn to SRX5308 from IOS10, Win7 and Win10

I have spent a couple of days now to figure out a way to set up my SRX5308 so it can do the following: Allow VPN connection from iPhone with OSX V10. Allow VPN connection from Win7 Allow VP...

Troubleshooting

bzness

Aspirant

Jul 25, 2017

thank you for your help. I followed your instruction to the letter, but when I try to connect, the Netgear VPN client gives up after 4 tries. Looking at the VPN log on the router, I see this 4 times:

Tue Jul 25 07:44:10 2017 (GMT -0600): [SRX5308] [IKE] ERROR: Aggressive mode of (invalid)[(invalid)] is not acceptable.
Tue Jul 25 07:44:10 2017 (GMT -0600): [SRX5308] [IKE] INFO: Anonymous configuration selected for <<IP address>> [41155].

So, I go into the router, diable the VPN policy, change the IKE policy to "Main". Apply, and enable the VPN policy again. And I am getting the same exact log entries.

How is that possible? Perhaps I misunderstand the "Agressive mode" antry and it does not refer to "Agressive mode"? What does "(invalid)[(invalid)]" mean?

bzness

Aspirant

Jul 25, 2017

Success!

I have a VPN tunnel now through my iPhone.

The (invalid)[(invalid)] error message was a configuration error. I had entered the client and router IDs, but not selected "DNS". When I saved it, the client would simply delete the entries again.

Thank you for your help.

DaneA
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 26, 2017
bzness,

Thank you for the update. I'm glad to know that you are able to established a VPN tunnel through your iPhone. :)

Since your concern has been resolved, I encourage you to mark the appropriate reply as the “Accepted Solution” so others can be confident in benefiting from the solution. The NETGEAR Community looks forward to hearing from you and being a helpful resource in the future!

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team