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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Perhaps I’m over-simplifying, but that’s just how I read it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Jim<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net [mailto:vpn-help-bounces@lists.shrew.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Morten Brix Pedersen<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 16, 2013 1:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> vpn-help@lists.shrew.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [vpn-help] VPN setup<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm pretty new to VPN so I am looking for much appreciated help.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We need to connect to an external system/API, which requires a VPN-connection.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> bringing up tunnel ...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> negotiation timout occurred<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> tunnel disabled<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How can I debug this further?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> - Morten.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>