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RAX80 VPN on Mac
Is there any documentation on how to get the native MacOS VPN client connected to VPN on the RAX80? The documentation on the router itself is for OpenVPN and doesn't seem to be up to date. I couldn't ...
bmfkai wrote:
Is there any documentation on how to get the native MacOS VPN client connected to VPN on the RAX80?No, because Netgear is using OpenVPN, what is not compatible with the Apple supplied IPSec which comes in three variants on Mojave (10.14):
- L2TP/IPSec
- IPSec/IKEv2
- Cisco IPsec
The first two represent the "real" standardized VPN with available IETF RFCs, Cisco is obviously partially proprietary. There was some rumour that Apple might support some SSL VPN natively, but this has never happened for now.
OpenVPN is SSL/TLS based, so some parts of the transport are IETF RFC'ed, but not the overlaying system - so a complete different technology - requiring dedicated clients, as nicely documented and explained e.g. with OpenVPN (commercial) Access Server -> Connecting to Access Server with macOS
bmfkai wrote:
Is there any documentation on how to get the native MacOS VPN client connected to VPN on the RAX80?
No, because Netgear is using OpenVPN, what is not compatible with the Apple supplied IPSec which comes in three variants on Mojave (10.14):
- L2TP/IPSec
- IPSec/IKEv2
- Cisco IPsec
The first two represent the "real" standardized VPN with available IETF RFCs, Cisco is obviously partially proprietary. There was some rumour that Apple might support some SSL VPN natively, but this has never happened for now.
OpenVPN is SSL/TLS based, so some parts of the transport are IETF RFC'ed, but not the overlaying system - so a complete different technology - requiring dedicated clients, as nicely documented and explained e.g. with OpenVPN (commercial) Access Server -> Connecting to Access Server with macOS