Why can't my iPhone connect using IPsec? (re: "User authentication failed.")
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Here is a really good entry: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,24752.msg130558/topicseen.html#msg130558
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I'd be happy to write up a tutorial if someone were to give me an iPad/iPad 2. Sadly, I can't document something I don't have access to… :-)
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jimp,
I can't provide an iPad, but I'd be happy to contribute to a "bounty." Alternatively, I would consider contributing an iPod Touch. I know that's not as fun as an iPad, but for all intents and purposes when it comes to iDevice testing and documentation, it should work just fine.
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A guide might not be all it takes. I might be wrong, hopefully I am, but it might be worth looking into this before handing out ipods.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,34135.0.htmlIt all depends where the other thread takes us. If it's only me having that problem I will put some more time into figuring it out (settings seems to work, it "just" randomly fails). If it turns out to be a configuration issue and if a guide is all it takes I'd be happy to write it (without the donation) when I get it to work.
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I got it working … finally. I made some mods based on igor's link. I'll write it all up and post it. Maybe it can be added to the wiki.
fredriks: I don't think it's as simple matter of "handing out iPods." I know jimp and a bunch of other contributors are spending a lot of time working on pfSense -- free for everyone -- and if a iPod = creating good documentation of an issue I (and others) couldn't solve myself, then I think an iPod is a small amount to contribute. As it is, I've solved it and will contribute the documentation myself in a few days instead of an iDevice. Again, for free to the pfSense community. :)
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I was half kidding about the donation bit. :-)
Chris has an iPhone, as do some other devs, and I think one of them may at least have access to an iPad, but it's one thing to have it and another thing to document it.
I currently don't have any iOS devices, but that may change in time. Perhaps we'll hold the 2.0 release hostage until we all get iPad 2's. ;-)
/kidding
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hey, any updates on this ?
id love for an ipsec HOWTO. (im a bit lost here)
tommorow i am buying an ipad2 ;D
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I was wondering, why there are no privileges that can be assigned for IPSec dialin in the user-manager…
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yes, we need to make a permission for IPsec VPN yet. It doesn't exist now, but it will before 2.0 is released.
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hey, any updates on this ?
id love for an ipsec HOWTO. (im a bit lost here)
tommorow i am buying an ipad2 ;D
bump.
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bump ???
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ericab:
https://portal.pfsense.org/index.php/support-subscription
or wait until they have time to implement this feature.
Roy…
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I followed the detailed tutorial linked -igor- in previous page. I nearly got it to work, but it fails with this error (in pfSense logs):
racoon: ERROR: phase1 negotiation failed due to time up [some long hash here]
I'm going to try with same setup but OS X 10.6.6 as the VPN client. I've been waiting for quite some time to get reliable secure VPN from OS X back to pfSense. I've gotten PPTP to work some times, but not reliably and I've heard the security is weak.
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For what it's worth, I've had good luck with OpenVPN and 10.6.6, using Viscosity as the client. Not sure if OpenVPN is considered secure enough for you, but it's been relibale and effective for me.
–Rook
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I need to try it more, but I think it will work fine, this setup, with OS X even if not iPhone. I tested it today and it brought up the connection but immediately Snort blocked the IP I was on. I'll report back once I adjust the Snort rule tuning and can test it again. I've never tried Viscosity, only Tunnelblick which I wasn't crazy about.
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I did have to adjust some firewall rules, specifically (if I recall right) explicitly allowing traffic from VPN clients to WAN. OpenVPN Wizard took care of most of the rest of it, though I did set it up with an earlier beta. Didn't take too much trial and error to get the basics working well.
I'm pretty pleased with Viscosity as a VPN client. I had used the Cisco client for OS X as well as Shimo in the past. I prefer the UI, logging, and connection info provided by Viscocity than those others. Like Shimo it runs as a menu item with a detail screen you can pop open if the need arises. It's not free, but not too expensive either ($9). Looks like Shimo supports OpenVPN now as well, but I wasn't a huge fan of the UI in the (older) version I used to run to connect to a CiscoVPN for a former job. Hated the logging and connection detail views. It might be better now, that was a few years back. Either way, it is more expensive at €16 (but handles more VPN connection types).
As for iOS, correct there's nothing official but I have tried out and verified an OpenVPN client available for jailbroken phones via Cydia called GuizmOVPN. €5, but has a 7 day free trial to make sure things work. See more here:
http://www.guizmovpn.com/Anyway, hope some of that helped someone…
--Rook
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I did have to adjust some firewall rules, specifically (if I recall right) explicitly allowing traffic from VPN clients to WAN. OpenVPN Wizard took care of most of the rest of it, though I did set it up with an earlier beta. Didn't take too much trial and error to get the basics working well.
I'm pretty pleased with Viscosity as a VPN client. I had used the Cisco client for OS X as well as Shimo in the past. I prefer the UI, logging, and connection info provided by Viscocity than those others. Like Shimo it runs as a menu item with a detail screen you can pop open if the need arises. It's not free, but not too expensive either ($9). Looks like Shimo supports OpenVPN now as well, but I wasn't a huge fan of the UI in the (older) version I used to run to connect to a CiscoVPN for a former job. Hated the logging and connection detail views. It might be better now, that was a few years back. Either way, it is more expensive at €16 (but handles more VPN connection types).
As for iOS, correct there's nothing official but I have tried out and verified an OpenVPN client available for jailbroken phones via Cydia called GuizmOVPN. €5, but has a 7 day free trial to make sure things work. See more here:
http://www.guizmovpn.com/Anyway, hope some of that helped someone…
--Rook
Rook, thanks for that, im going to look into guizmovpn, as soon as i can jailbreak my ipad2 (finally got one!).
in the meantime, i would love it (and even be willing to paypal you some $ for your troubles if you could help me ((or even write a howto so others could read it aswell)) if you'd write a step-by step for allowing my ipad to connect to my pfSense 2.0 RC, IPSec server. ive had no luck sofar. :/-ericab
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Haven't tried setting up IPSec yet… and no iPad... but if I get some time I'll give it a go with the smaller iDevices. I wouldn't pin your hopes on me though– relatively new to pfSense, started with 1.2.3 and then quickly started using the 2.0 betas, and just trial/error'd my way through the base setup(s), then some of the firewall tweaking, snort, squid, traffic shaping, then OpenVPN.
That said, if I do get the time and make some headway, I'll write something up. Least I can do for all the help I've had here reading through the posts.
--Rook
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I'm almost done with my write-up. I'll take some screenshots and verify that everything works correctly in the coming days. Stay tuned.
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I'm almost done with my write-up. I'll take some screenshots and verify that everything works correctly in the coming days. Stay tuned.
Excellent… thanks mlanner. Much better idea than me trying to do the same / from scratch (especially with no pressing need on my end to get the thing figured out and working).
--Rook
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beautiful thanks for that ! :D
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Hi,
eagerly awaiting the manual to set up iOS devices with IPSEC.
Concerning OS X and VPN, I have some infos to contribute… I grew to like using OpenVPN with Viscosity on OS X. Viscosity is pretty and OpenVPN runs at user level, so it is a little easier on the system. But: Yes, Viscosity is cheap (9$), but not free. Using the OpenVPN export wizard in pfsense, setting up OpenVPN users on OS X is a matter of seconds, it really is that easy.
Before using pfsense (so about 3-4 months ago) I happily used IPSecuritas (www.lobotomo.com) as a free (0$, Racoon-based) IPSEC client for my routers. I rolled out quite a few users with quite a few routers with IPSecuritas, is seriously rocks (not as pretty as Viscosity though).
So, once we get the iOS dial in straight, I will see if I can contribute in documenting setting up normal IPSEC with a Mac and IPSecuritas. There is a M0n0wall wizard for IPSecuritas, but since pfsense 2 and m0n0wall differ quite a lot, I wasn't really successful yet. Didn't try as hard though, as currently OpenVPN works just fine to dial in to my pfsense box.
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Can you point to this m0n0 wizard?
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I'm having the problem with xauth seeming to happen before the SA is established. Is there an easy way to apply the patch referenced http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,34135.0.html? If I slow down the processing by enabling about 10 debugs or speed up the link it works.
Anybody have any other idea? I'd love to figure out what's actually happening here but any workaround that will work would be great (except using PSK, I need certificates).
thanks
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@ermal:
Can you point to this m0n0 wizard?
Sure, here you go: http://www.lobotomo.com/products/IPSecuritas/howto/m0n0wall%20HOWTO.pdf
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hey mlanner;
any luck on your write up ? ive had absolutely no luck connecting with my ipad/iphone ::) -
I'm also interested in this tutorial!
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any updates? :-)
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i hope soon ! ive been checking this thread twice daily.
mlanner hasnt been active here since march 21st… -
Hey everyone,
Just a brief update … I got slammed at work. I've completely migrated to 2.0-RC1 now and will deploy and test in the next few days. Hopefully before the weekend. I'll post details when I'm done. Promise.
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anyone successfully gotten ipsec+iphone/ipad working yet ?
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Yep I use it since january more or less. Works great. I did the setup with the provided infos. Only thing when setting up the IPSEC is, you have to wait a moment before connecting your tunnel. After setting up the tunnel on pfsense i wait some time before trying. Don't know why, but minimum waiting time is 1 hour. stopping and restarting IPSEC doesn't help. Same thing happened when i changed the password in the uswr-manager. Could not connect directly, had to wait some time to get the tunnel up. I thought that some infos are cached at the iphone, but a test with the OSX IPSEC-client had the same issues. So now i'm not sure if i'm wrong…
- 8 days later
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Hey everyone,
Just a brief update … I got slammed at work. I've completely migrated to 2.0-RC1 now and will deploy and test in the next few days. Hopefully before the weekend. I'll post details when I'm done. Promise.
hello ? mlanner ?
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@ericab: Whats your problem with connecting? Which are your questions, whats not clear for you? Maybe i can help out.
At the moment i don't have an ipad, but can connect with iphone OS 3.1.2, 4.0.1, 4.3.1, with 2g, 3g, 3gs, 4. I think the ipad should be the same thing.
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Hi!
I would love it to connect my iPhone using certificates … would that be feasible and if yes what I am supposed to do?
Thanks
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@ericab: Whats your problem with connecting? Which are your questions, whats not clear for you? Maybe i can help out.
At the moment i don't have an ipad, but can connect with iphone OS 3.1.2, 4.0.1, 4.3.1, with 2g, 3g, 3gs, 4. I think the ipad should be the same thing.
hi igor;
the only hangup for me and most others here, is we've used this tutorial:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,24752.msg130558/topicseen.html#msg130558and are at the point where we've successfully established a connection, but no traffic at all will pass to my main lan, nor to the internet.
my LAN network is 192.168.3.0/24
my ipsec network ive assigned is 192.168.4.0/24
(if you need id be happy to give you screenshots of the ipsec setup.)i'm hoping you or mlanner would get a howto goin' about this, in a separate thread which we could point people to; that or hope that iOS 5 will allow for openvpn links ::)
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only to clear that up:
After connect you can access from your phone/pad any service/documents which are located on LAN-side.
You try to get access to WAN from your phone via the tunnel and have no success?
You can not connect to any service/documents when trying to access from LAN to phone?So the only thing i did was setting a rule from any to any at the IPSEC-tab.
I cann access from and to the phone, surfing the internet mostly fails with timeouts, but that happens on bad line. And that feature i rarely need. -
Hey …
do you use IPSEC with PSK method or via Certificates?
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hi schnubert;
if your asking me, it is PSK -
hmm…
I would rather prefer certificates... ???