ARD Apple Remote Desktop stopped working over site2site VPN IPsec unifi

I´m not sure what caused the problem, as I´m not using ARD very often. MacOS was updated to Sonoma 14.4 and unit also to the latest updates . ARD via VPN IPsec worked fine for years now.

Changing to VPN Server connection via L2TP solves the problem but is only a temporarly solution.

Any ideas from anyone? Changing to a different site2site configuration is not a solution for now, I´m happy this one ruling stable for now.

Thanks for any advice in advanced

Robert

Posted on Mar 21, 2024 1:34 PM

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