VPN Only works after manually restarted

[New Server Admin]

I have setup a stand-alone server that runs DHCP, NAT, and VPN. I turned on PPTP, and L2TP, but when I try to VPN into the server it hangs in the Authentication phase. However, if I manually STOP and then RESTART VPN from ServerAdmin, all works fine.

Anyone know how to get VPN to work correctly after a reboot, without having to manually restart VPN?

Thanks!

[New Server Admin]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in responding to your request for more information. Thanks for taking an interest in helping me. I wanted to see to 10.4.5 would help, but it didn’t. I have a new G5 powermac running Server 10.4.5 as a standalone server. DHCP, NAT, VPN are turned on. It has two ethernet ports, one acts as WAN, the other as LAN. The NAT,DHCP works fine, as does VPN after I manually restart it after the machine boots. I have the VPN log file for you, if you would like me to email it to you, let me know. It has both an example of a failed attempt, and then after I restart VPN, a successful connection.

Any help you could provide is appreciated.

[cidboy]

I just want to say that I have the same problem. Although, I do not run a NAT on my server.

Everytime that the server is rebooted, I need to go and manually STOP and START the vpn server for it to work. If not, when a client connects, it is stucked at the authentication phase – exactly the same problem as the original poster.

Anyone here running a VPN server without this problem?

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