#VISCOSITY VPN CLIENT FORTINET HOW TO#

Configure the L2TP VPN, including the IP address range it assigns to clients.

Configure LT2P users and firewall user group.

To configure the FortiGate unit, you must: The following section consists of configuring the FortiGate unit and configuring the Windows PC.

User has Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher - a Windows version that supports L2TP.

L2TP protocol traffic is allowed through network firewalls (TCP and UDP port 1701).

The following assumptions have been made for this example: However, in Mac OSX (OSX 10.6.3, including patch releases) the L2TP feature does not work properly on the Mac OS side. L2TP and IPsec is supported for native Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OSX native VPN clients. The initiator of the L2TP tunnel is called the L2TP Access Concentrator (LAC). L2TP provides no encryption and used UDP port 1701. Mac OS X 10.3 system and higher also have a built-in client.

Microsoft Windows operating system has a built-in L2TP client starting since Windows 2000. L2TP is a tunneling protocol published in 1999 that is used with VPNs, as the name suggests. Starting in FortiOS 4.0 MR2, you can configure a FortiGate unit to work with unmodified Microsoft VPN client software.

Example FortiGate VPN configuration with Microsoft clientsįor users, the difference is that instead of installing and using the FortiClient application, they configure a network connection using the software built into the Microsoft Windows operating system. The topology of a VPN for Microsoft Windows dialup clients is very similar to the topology for FortiClient Endpoint Security clients. The following topics are included in this section:įor troubleshooting information, refer to Troubleshooting L2TP and IPsec.

#VISCOSITY VPN CLIENT FORTINET HOW TO#

This section describes how to set up a VPN that is compatible with the Microsoft Windows native VPN, which is Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) with IPsec encryption.

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