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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 por...
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    TheEther
    Apr 30, 2016

    The R8000 has a VPN server.  See chapter 13 in the manual (link).

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TheEther
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Apr 30, 2016

The R8000 has a VPN server.  See chapter 13 in the manual (link).

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wa1oui
Aspirant
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.