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wa1oui
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Apr 30, 2016
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Specifics of VPN on Nighthawk?

I currently have a home VPN set up with native Mac OS X (not server) and clients on my portable macs & iPhones, using L2TP & a shared secret. This is using "off the shelf" parts of each OS. I use port forwarding on my R8000 to send the requests to a specific machine.

 

Does the Netgear VPN get me anything I don't have now? It would be nice if IT were the VPN server that gave me access to the network so I didn't need a server running on my Mac, but I don't see that hidden in the documentation.

 

Thanks for any light anyone can shed!

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      wa1oui
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      Apr 30, 2016

      Thanks THE Ether,

       

      I had read some of the info, but now read it more carefully. I guess I have two problems with using it:

       

      1) No client software for iOS

       

      2) I can't keep my current client setup using native OS X.... I'd have to setup new software.

       

      If something's working I won't mess with it, I had just been hoping to be easily able to replace only the server piece, using the Nighthawk.

       

      Status quo for me.