OS X 10.9 VPN Server for non-apple devices

Usually this is a trial-and-error process unless you can find someone else who has connected your particular type of device.

Bryan Dulock

Apple Consultants Network

Houston, TX

VPN is VPN. There's no specifically Apple flavour of VPN. When you set up VPN look at the options it offers you and choose from those that your other devices say they can handle. All the options Apple supports are in the Graphical Interface you see when you set it up.

Using VPN from home would not normally be done at the router level. You'd normally set up each of your devices with VPN settings. If you want to make your router talk VPN it would normally be talking VPN to another router at your other site -- ideally the same model of router -- not to a computer.

No, a device isn't going to let a server install random software on it. And the server wouldn't have a huge list of software suitable for all devices anyway.

Among your other problems, you should know that MS-CHAP is called what it is because it's specifically a Microsoft version of CHAP. I wouldn't want to use it with anything Microsoft didn't make.

Ignore your router for a moment. Let's see if your server's VPN is working properly. Can you configure one of your computers or other devices to use the server's VPN ?