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VPN en Cloudformation

I have created a VPN in CloudFormation, using a template and it has been created correctly.

I have problems using it, since neither iPhone, iPad nor Mac can connect, they return the message that the L2TP-VPN server is not responding.

Topics: Management & Governance Networking & Content Delivery
Tags: AWS Client VPN AWS Virtual Private Network (VPN)AWS CloudFormation
Language: English

User-5388490

asked 2 years ago274 views

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AWS Client VPN is based on OpenVPN's custom protocol, based on TLS. L2TP is a completely different protocol not used by OpenVPN or AWS Client VPN. The OpenVPN protocol is not natively supported by iOS or Android.

You should use the OpenVPN client on the mobile devices you listed and the AWS-provided client application on Mac. There are further pointers in documentation for iOS and Android: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpn/latest/clientvpn-user/android.html as well as MacOS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpn/latest/clientvpn-user/client-vpn-connect-macos.html

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Leo K

answered 2 years ago