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October 9, 2025

Troubleshooting Tip: Dialup IPsec VPN with FortiToken fails to connect

  • October 9, 2025
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Description

This article describes how to fix a dial-up IPsec VPN with FortiToken fails to connect.

Scope

FortiGate, FortiAuthenticator.

Solution

 

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The user cannot connect to dial-up IPsec VPN with FortiToken and encountered ‘FortiClient Wrong Credentials EAP failed connecting’ error. While successful when connecting without FortiToken. Another error that commonly appear is 'EAPPasswordError':

 

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The setup is a dial-up IPsec VPN IKEv2 using RADIUS authentication, where FortiGate is the RADIUS client while the FortiAuthenticator is the RADIUS server.

 

Enable ‘Allow OTP for EAP-MSCHAPv2 Authentication with FortiClient’ on the RADIUS Service policy of FortiGate on the FortiAuthenticator to fix these errors.

 

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MSCHAP2 is a prerequisite of this setup. 

 

Related articles:

Technical Tip: Authenticating users using MSCHAP2 PEAP
Technical Tip: Joining FortiAuthenticator in the active directory as a machine entity