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njem
Jan 19, 2017Aspirant
VPN iPad ios10 to SRX5308
Before I beat my head against trying to get this VPN going and wonder why it won't work am I wasting my time? I find this article
http://kb.netgear.com/25836/How-to-Setup-VPN-with-NETGEAR-Firewall-and-iPhone-iPad
which says I must run firmware that the release notes say "supports iphone VPN". Well the release notes for this router don't say that. Can it not make a VPN connection to an ipad with ios 10?
Thanks.
6 Replies
- njemAspirant
Thanks. The IOS VPN dialog uses different names for entries than the netgear side. Seems like every company does. What settings do you have for these boxes?
Server (I assume this is the outside IP)
Remote ID (This is like fqn_remote.com in the netgear example?)
Local ID (This is like fqn_local.com?)
Authentication (this defaults to "user name" but there is no user name, unless this is where the fqn_remote.com would go)
Password (would be the preshared key)
Proxy (by default is off)
Generally for VPN setup I'm expecting to put in somewhere what the local and/or remote LAN IP range is. I don't see a place to put that here. Doesn't need it?
Also usually the LAN IP of the VPN router. Don't see where that goes.
If the proxy should be set to manual it's asking for server (this is the router LAN IP?) port (VPNs use multiple ports) and authentication (this would be fqn_remote.com and password?)
How did you set these?
Thanks.
- ChenXNETGEAR Expert
Hi njem
You should select the type to IPSec
Here is my config on IOS:
Type: IPSec
Description:Any
Server: SRX5308-WAN IP
Account: username (the user you added on the SRX5308)
Password: userpassword (the user's password you added on the SRX5308)
Use Certificate:OFF
Secret:the Pre-shared key on the SRX5308
PROXY: OFF
Regards
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