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Aspirant

Mar 20, 2017

Solved

VPN MacOS client setup

Working to setup up a IPv4 Client-to-Gateway VPN tunnel for MacOS clients configuring the MacOS native VPN client (Network Settings, VPN Interface, Cisco IPSec type). It appears I have been successfu...

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DaneA
May 21, 2017
morrisonkena,

I apologize for this is the only time I got back on this. Is your network setup as well as the settings on your FVS336Gv3 and MAC OS X Sierra the same as indicated on the article below?

Mac OS X VPN Client install with ProSAFE VPN Firewall/Router

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team

morrisonkena

Aspirant

Mar 28, 2017

Hi sqv,

I configured my FVS336Gv3 and my Mac's VPN client using a Netgear Application Notes document titled "How to Configure UTM with Apple OSX and iOS Devices for IPsec VPN", dated 2011. I can't recall how I stumbled upon this document but you could search for it.

As I said, I can connect from my Mac laptop to my FVS336Gv3 over the VPN, and I can send/receive email and web browse, but I cannot yet access LAN resources, such as my network storage. I am certain the solution is some configuration adjustment on the FVS336Gv3 (perhaps DNS resolution as you suggest) but I have not had the time to experiment and have not received any reply from Netgear or any other community member.

What I have not experienced is the timeouts you are seeing. The tunnel appears to stay up until I close it.

I have not yet configured iOS devices, as that is less critical to me that MacOS. Thank you for the KB article!

- Ken

DaneA

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Apr 18, 2017

morrisonkena,

I just want to follow-up on this. Were you able to try the suggestions?

Regards,

DaneA

NETGEAR Community Team