Proper configuration is necessary on the UTM-side, but the UTM admin should have confirmed Mac OS X compatibility before provisioning a VPN account to you (IMHO).įor troubleshooting, I recommend two things: Third-party VPN clients are nice and full-featured, but certainly not required. This thread comes up on a lot of Google searches for Mac OS X compatibility with SonicWall VPNs, so even though the thread is old, I just wanted to post that YES, Mac OS X's native VPN client works fine with SonicWall's L2TP VPN. I am trying to connect to a broken (non-standard) firewall, with a broken Mac OS X client. Wed Nov 14 17:23:16 2012 : IPSec connection failed Wed Nov 14 17:23:16 2012 : IPSec phase 1 client started Wed Nov 14 17:23:16 2012 : IPSec connection started Wed Nov 14 16:26:12 2012 : IPSec connection failed Wed Nov 14 16:25:41 2012 : IPSec phase 1 server replied Wed Nov 14 16:25:41 2012 : IPSec phase 1 client started I cannot find a reference to Firewall Unique Identifier.ĮDIT (, 11:00 PM): From the Mac OS X logs (so much for the garbage message box from this crummy operating system): Wed Nov 14 16:25:41 2012 : IPSec connection started Just to be sure, I revisited RFC 2409, where Main Mode, Aggressive Mode, and Quick Mode are discussed. It seems an IPSec VPN now requires a Firewall Unique Identifier. I have two questions: (1) does Mac OS X VPN work in real life? (2) Are there any trustworthy (non-Apple) tools to test and diagnose the connection problem (Wireshark is a cannon and I have to interpret the results)?Īnd a third question (off topic): what is so broken in Cupertino such that so much broken software gets past their QA department? I pay good money for the software to run their hardware, and this is an absolute joke.ĮDIT (, 6:00 PM): The network guy sent me 'VPN Configuration Guide' (Equinox document SonicOS_Standard-6-EN). This is utter garbage, as a Wireshark trace shows the Protected Mode negotiation, and then the fallback to Quick Mode: The connection attempt subsequently fails: The Mac Networking applet claims the remote server is not responding. My MacBook Pro is OS X 10.8, 圆4, fully patched. I'm not sure of the SonicWall's hardware or software level.

The company has a SonicWall firewall/concentrator and I'm working on a Mac. I'm trying to get VPN access up and running.

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