Unable to connect windows 7 client to l2tp/ipsec on pfsense

[Snailkhan]

Hi,
I have tried to follow below guide with some confusions/assumptions and configured pfsense as the guide says but i cannot connect a windows 7 enterprise client to it.

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/L2TP/IPsec

while following above guide i have faced ambiguity in below parts of guide.
Under heading
Setup L2TP
Configure L2TP Server

Set Server Address to an unused private subnet IP, such as 192.168.32.1
NOTE: This is not a public IP address or "listen" IP for the L2TP service, it is a local IP address set as the "gateway" on the clients
Set Remote Address Range to an unused private subnet, such as 192.168.32.128

When i tried as mentioned above it would complain about some ip and i selected diffrent subnet for both i.e.  gateway address and remote address range fields.

Under "Setup IPsec" "Phase 1"

it doesnt mentions of "Remote gateway"

and if i enter nothing in it i get below error upon saving it

i entered my wan address (ddns name ) ..

The following input errors were detected:

The field Remote gateway is required. 

the guide also doesnt mentions anything about preshared key available in pfsense at below location
"Phase 1 proposal (Authentication)" "Pre-Shared Key"

though the guide says to configure authenticatoin to mutual psk

then in the portion of guide
"Pre-Shared Key"
it says creatin of shared key .. how it relates to above one?

in my case i have entered different preshared key at both locations and vpn from windows 7 client cnanot connect and gives error  789
i hope i am not following that guide too religiously…

[David_W]

L2TP/IPsec is troublesome. You are better off deploying IKEv2, which works fine with the client built in to Windows 7.