[vpn-help] mac osx, vpn works on wireless, not on wired

Gary Schrock gary at eyelab.msu.edu
Mon Mar 5 13:43:23 CST 2012


Ok, this one is kinda puzzling us.  We've run into a situation using
the mac build for 2.1.7 where we can connect to our vpn when we're
connected over wireless, but not when it's connected via a wired
connection.  We're using the same config file on both pc's and mac's,
and have had no problems at all with the pc's, and as I said, when
using a wireless connection it's working fine on the mac.  But we've
now tried three different mac machines, and all of them work on
wireless, and not on wired using the same config.

What seems to happen is that we'll get a connection, and to the
"Tunnel enabled" part, but then either as soon as we try to send
traffic across, or 15 seconds after we've connected, we get network
unavailable, and it drops.  On the wired mac, it seems unable to
establish the phase 2 portion (on all other setups, when we try
sending traffic across, our juniper firewall logs the phase 2
connection established).  We get no error messages on the firewall
side with the wired mac, just never any evidence that it attempts to
establish the phase 2.  All the logs on the firewall up to that point
are identical across all our configs.

So, anyone have any thoughts on what we're missing about what's
different with the wired connection on a Mac?

Thanks,
Gary



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