PPTP VPN on MAC OS X Sierra, High Sierra and Mojave for FREE 3rd of March 2018 Introduction. PPTP VPN is no longer supported on macOS Sierra and High Sierra and that is just fine, because there are some security issues. What is not fine that in corporate environment the inertia is so big, that this can take years to stop using PPTP VPN. Configure The VPN Service In macOS Server 5.4 on High Sierra macOS Server has long had a VPN service to allow client computers to connect to a network even when they’re out of the home or office. And as with many a service on macOS Server, this is one of the easiest VPN servers you’ll ever setup.
For a Free trial of the VPN used in this demo How to setup an L2PT VPN on Mac OSX High Sierra. Use the link in this description for a Free Trial to setup a VPN or use the details provided by your VPN provider.
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On this post I am going to show you how to setup L2TP VPN macOS Sierra. It should be also applicable on the previous version of OS X such as El Capitan, Yosemite, and Mavericks. If you upgraded your Mac to macOS 10.12 Sierra or your iPhone to iOS 10 you might be surprised that PPTP client is not on the list when adding VPN interface. Apple will no longer support PPTP client starting from macOS Sierra and iOS 10. Alternatively you can switch to use L2TP VPN over IPSec which offers better and more secure connection. In I have shown you how to configure Mikrotik as an L2TP VPN server.
We will use the account configured on the Mikrotik as the login account. The step by step how to setup L2TP VPN macOS Sierra Follow the below step by step on how to setup L2TP over IPSec on macOS Sierra 1.
Open System Preferences then select Network In the Network settings, click the + (plus) button to create a new service (we will create a new VPN service) 2. Select the interface for the new service To create a new VPN service, configure the interface as below; Interface: VPN VPN Type: L2TP over IPSec Service Name: choose a name for this new service. By default the name should be VPN (L2TP) 3. Enter the VPN server address and your account Make sure the L2TP VPN server has been correctly configured. If you use Mikrotik, you can follow on how to configure Mikrotik as L2TP VPN server. Server Address: the IP address of your L2TP server Account Name: your login name to your L2TP server 4. Configure the Authentication Settings Click on the Authentication Settings to configure auth and machine authentication.
Password: the password of your PPP secret Shared Secret: the IPSec shared secret 5. Click Advanced button Make sure that the ‘ Send all traffic over VPN connection’ is checked.
Then click OK button. Complete the setting by clicking Apply button. Connecting to L2TP VPN server To connect to the VPN server, click the Connect button just under the Authentication Settings.
Once it is connected, you can see the connection status, the connect time, and the IP address assigned to your Mac. I hope this post can help you on how to setup L2TP VPN on macOS Sierra. Hi Fuad, thanks for your howto. I tried it, with el Capitan on a Mikrotik Router. With both howto`s, for the router and the Mac.
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I get the message, The L2tp-VPN-Server does not respond. In the Log on the mac i find: Mon Mar 13 16:: publishentry SCDSet failed: Success!
Mon Mar 13 16:: publishentry SCDSet failed: Success! Mon Mar 13 16:: l2tpgetrouteraddress Mon Mar 13 16:: l2tpgetrouteraddress 192.168.0.1 from dict 1 Mon Mar 13 16:: L2TP connecting to server ‘44.76.88.17’ (44.76.88.17) Mon Mar 13 16:: IPSec connection started Mon Mar 13 16:: IPSec connection failed Maybe you´ve got an idea.
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