[vpn-help] VPN setup

[Morten Brix Pedersen]

Hi Jim,

Yes, this is correct. Is there no way to make a tunnel with Linux software?

  - Morten.


2013/9/19 Jim Harle <vpn at technicolor.com>

> Morten – this sure sounds like your provider is intending for you to
> establish a “site-to-site” tunnel between network equipment, as opposed to
> a “client-to-gateway” connection.  If it were the latter, than the provider
> would be telling you how to make that connection and what client software
> to use.****
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> Perhaps I’m over-simplifying, but that’s just how I read it.****
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> -Jim****
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> *From:* vpn-help-bounces at lists.shrew.net [mailto:
> vpn-help-bounces at lists.shrew.net] *On Behalf Of *Morten Brix Pedersen
> *Sent:* Monday, September 16, 2013 1:43 PM
> *To:* vpn-help at lists.shrew.net
> *Subject:* [vpn-help] VPN setup****
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> Hi,****
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> I'm pretty new to VPN so I am looking for much appreciated help.****
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> We need to connect to an external system/API, which requires a
> VPN-connection.****
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> From the provider we have received information on the ip address on the
> VPN peer and a preshared key. Further we had to give them our public ip in
> order to restrict connections from just our ip.****
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> I setup an AWS EC2 Instance (Windows) and installed Shrew Soft VPN. I am
> then trying to connect to their ip with the preshared key using IPSec, but
> the only thing showing up is:****
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>     bringing up tunnel ...****
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>     negotiation timout occurred****
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>     tunnel disabled****
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> One thing I notice in the VPN Trace tool is that "Destination" is our
> servers private ip address and not the public ip address that we gave them.
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> On AWS EC2, it does not seem possible to register the network interface
> with the public ip. Is there a way to override this destination ip?****
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> How can I debug this further?****
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> Thanks****
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>  - Morten.****
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