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I'm experimenting with an L2TP / IPSec Telecommuter VPN service. And I am having trouble telling the clients to use my internal DNS servers
config vpn ipsec phase1-interface
edit "L2TP-TeleVPN"
set type dynamic
set interface "port1"
set local-gw a.b.c.d
set peertype any
set net-device enable
set proposal aes256-sha1 3des-sha1
set dpd on-idle
set dhgrp 14
set psksecret ENC {deleted}
set dpd-retryinterval 60
next
end
config vpn ipsec phase2-interface
edit "L2TP-TeleVPN"
set phase1name "L2TP-TeleVPN"
set proposal aes256-md5 3des-sha1 aes192-sha1
set pfs disable
set encapsulation transport-mode
set l2tp enable
next
end
config vpn l2tp
set eip 10.10.10.1
set sip 10.10.10.254
set status enable
set usrgrp "LDAP-VPN-User"
end
I tried adding the following:
config vpn ipsec phase1-interface
edit "L2TP-TeleVPN"
set type dynamic
set interface "port1"
set local-gw a.b.c.d
set peertype any
set net-device enable
set mode-cfg enable
set ipv4-dns-server1 10.10.45.90
set ipv4-dns-server2 10.10.80.90
set ipv4-dns-server3 10.10.110.90
set proposal aes256-sha1 3des-sha1
set dpd on-idle
set dhgrp 14
set assign-ip-from name
set ipv4-netmask 255.255.255.0
set ipv4-name "L2TP-VPN-Client-Range"
set domain "company.com"
set psksecret ENC {deleted}
set dpd-retryinterval 60
next
config firewall address
edit "L2TP-VPN-Client-Range"
set uuid {deleted}
set type iprange
set color 4
set start-ip 10.10.10.1
set end-ip 10.10.10.254
next
But then clients don't connect at all ... diag debug app ike -1 shows me:
[...]
ike 0:L2TP-TeleVPN_0:222: peer has not completed Configuration Method
ike 0:L2TP-TeleVPN_0: deleting
[...]
Is it possible to instruct the Fortigate to tell the Clients what to use, in terms of DNS servers and domain name? Or does one have to configure these individually on the Clients?
--sk
Hi @StuaKend
were you able to solve this? I’m trying to force this on native Windows clients but with same result. When I enable mode-cfg the clients won’t connect.
I have discovered, that the pushed DNS Servers are the same, as the system DNS servers, so I changed those and it worked but I would like to be able to push specific ones…
Were you able to solve this somehow using DHCP?
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