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VPN not working after upgrading to Mavericks

Anyone else having issues? It worked fine with Mountain Lion on my iMac but, after updating to Mavericks today, it won't connect. It says to verify the server's IP number but it's correct.


Thanks,

- s

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 4:28 PM

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Aug 13, 2016 12:58 PM in response to mnsaint

Hello everyone,

Just a quick question for you experts 🙂

I'm having a issue setting up a VPN I used to connect on Windows 7 Ultimate. Here on iOS X Mavericks 10.9.2 (actually is updating to 10.9.3) on omission settings, automatic encryption and just a password for authentiphication and IPv4 setting as "use PPP", tells me "can't stablish a connection with the PPP server".

Why is this? is a predifine configuration on Windows that Mac doesn't have?


Thanks a lot


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Aug 13, 2016 12:58 PM in response to BMcWhirt

That's not what I was asking BMcWhirt, maybe I misspelled, sorry. I'm trying to connect from iOS X Mavericks 10.9.3 to a Server (probably on Windows Server 2008 or an appliance) via VPN. any docs? thanks!

Aug 8, 2014 11:20 AM in response to dejavupug

RE: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests


This turned out to be a problem with my cable modem/router. It seems that the Technicolor modems (used by Comcast, maybe others) have known issues with VPNs. What delayed diagnosing the problem is that Cisco AnyConnect, Juniper Networks VPN Client + two other less used clients worked fine. It was just vanilla PPTP (on both Mac & Windows OSes) VPN access that failed.


Ray

Oct 14, 2014 11:44 AM in response to mnsaint

I had Cisco IPSec issues after the Mavericks patch a week or two ago (10.9.5), with similar errors in my logs -


Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname configd[17]: IPSec connecting to server myvpnserver

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname configd[17]: SCNC: start, triggered by (178) SystemUIServer, type IPSec, status 0, trafficClass 0

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname configd[17]: IPSec Phase1 starting.

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname configd[17]: IPSec port-mapping update for en0 indicates no NAT. Public Address: 80fcaaa9, Protocol: None, Private Port: 0, Public Port: 0.

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname configd[17]: network changed.

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname racoon[18536]: accepted connection on vpn control socket.

Oct 14 11:09:19 hostname racoon[18536]: no configuration found for myserverIP

Oct 14 11:09:29 hostname configd[17]: IPSec disconnecting from server myserverIP

Oct 14 11:09:29 hostname racoon[18536]: IPSec disconnecting from server myserverIP


FWIW, deleting and recreating my IPsec instances was the final fix. I tried modifying/creating various config files in the racoon directories, restarting racoon each time, but didn't have success until wiping out the VPN configs.

VPN not working after upgrading to Mavericks

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