Do I have to enable Port Forwarding for VPN?

Hi escargot,

I was just reading this article and teaching myself at the same time.
I have now got this working using both OSX and WinXP clients.

Firtly I followed this article to setup the OSX VPN server and the WinXP clients, the OSX part is a little old but you will get the idea.

http://www.maclive.net/sid/132

Then I did some research on the net for the various ports required. The 2 port forwards that got me working were UDP 500 and TCP 1723

On a Billion BiPAC 7300GA they look like this:

TCP 1723 1723 192.168.xx.xx 1723
UDP 500 500 192.168.xx.xx 500

Next I simply fired up the WinXP client from a different network using PPTP and "Microsoft CHAP Version 2" only.

I connected right away after that.

As the others have stated you need to check if your router supports IPSEC Passthru.

I hope this helps out.

Regards,
Seigs
 
Hi Seigs,

Thanks very much for the response.

As it happens, I eventually got it working using the netgear router as a VPN endpoint then using VPN tracker to connect to it.

I would still "rather" connect to the Xserve VPN via the OSX VPN client but it just got too time consuming in the end. I'll probably look at it in the next couple of months again. For now though, it does what I need it to do. :)
 
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