We have a Mac Pro running 10.6.8 Server providing Directory Services, DNS, AFP, and VPN. Everything works great but from time to time the server will disable VPN and the configuration will be lost upon restart, not every restart. Maybe 1 our of every 2 times. I don't believe this is normal and I didn't see ayone else with a discussion going about this. I don't even know where to start with this one. Any insight would be greatly apreciated.
I recently added VPN service to our 10.6.8 server and have expirienced this too. Service works well but after a restart:
sudo serveradmin fullstatus vpn
vpn:servicePortsAreRestricted = "NO"
vpn:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:AuthenticationProtocol = "MSCHAP2"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:CurrentConnections = 0
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:enabled = no
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:MPPEKeySize = "MPPEKeySize128"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:Type = "PPP"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:SubType = "PPTP"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.pptp:AuthenticatorPlugins = "DSAuth"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:AuthenticationProtocol = "MSCHAP2"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:Type = "PPP"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:enabled = no
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:CurrentConnections = 0
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:SubType = "L2TP"
vpn:servers:com.apple.ppp.l2tp:AuthenticatorPlugins = "DSAuth"
vpn:servicePortsRestrictionInfo = _empty_array
vpn:health = _empty_dictionary
vpn:logPaths:com.apple.ppp.pptp_ServerLog = "/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log"
vpn:logPaths:com.apple.ppp.pptp_PPPLog = "/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log"
vpn:logPaths:vpnLog = "/var/log/ppp/vpnd.log"
vpn:configured = no
vpn:state = "STOPPED"
vpn:setStateVersion = 1
The issue we had ended up being very intermittent. We finally figured out that the settings would be lost and the service disabled if the server restarted while a user was connected to the VPN. Not really a fix from what I can tell, since upgrading to 10.7 server we haven't had any VPN issues after reboot with users connected.
Server Forgets VPN settings after restart
