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njem's avatar
njem
Aspirant
Jan 19, 2017

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

  • ChenX's avatar
    ChenX
    NETGEAR Expert

    Hi njem

     

    Welcome to the community! 

    I have tried on my ipad ios v10.2,SRX5308:4.3.4-2 follow your link.I can set up the vpn.

    Can you have a try on the newest firmware for SRX5308?

     

     

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    • njem's avatar
      njem
      Aspirant

      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.

       

      • ChenX's avatar
        ChenX
        NETGEAR 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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