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ConfusedUser
Explorer
October 9, 2023
Question

Connecting to FortiClient VPN results in no internet

  • October 9, 2023
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Hey there, first-time poster. Apologies, I'm not very familiar with networking or FortiClient, please for give any misunderstandings.

I'm on Windows 10, trying to use the FortiClient VPN to connect to an IPsec VPN with a pre-shared key. Have tried this over both Wifi and Ethernet.


I'm able to connect to the VPN, but whenever I connect, I notice that my internet connection changes from "Connected, secured", to "Connected, no internet", and I entirely lose my ability to use internet access when connected to the VPN.

Please let me know if there's any more information I could provide, or what steps to take next.

Note: About 6 months ago, this process was working fine. In that time, I had moved my modem to a different outlet in my house, and had re-configured which frequency my Wifi was on. However, I can't say conclusively if that caused this issue. I've factory reset my modem and moved it back to the original outlet, but still no luck.

2 replies

spoojary
Staff
Staff
October 9, 2023

Can you confirm that there is a firewall policy in place ?

 

ConfusedUser
Explorer
October 9, 2023

Hi! I've confirmed that it's not the firewall, have tried disabling firewall and running the VPN, with the same result.

dbu
Staff
Staff
October 9, 2023

Hi @ConfusedUser ,
You can isolate further and find out if it is routing or DNS issue .

Please perform :

nslookup www.google.com

If it resolves the DNS than : tracert www.google.com

ConfusedUser
Explorer
October 9, 2023

Hello! Running your first command "nslookup www.google.com" resulted in "UnKnown can't find www.google.com: No response from server".

dbu
Staff
Staff
October 9, 2023

It looks like not able to resolve the DNS.
Verify your IP configuration with: ipconfig /all.  
Compare with what the VPN should assign.


Can you ping your default gateway ? 
If you can ping your gateway than try to ping 8.8.8.8.