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sfrasernz

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#239606 26-Jul-2018 07:10
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I've got a working IKEv2 vpn with RSA authentication on my new Mikrotik after following their wiki guide

 

It wasn't documented as part of the guide but I had some fun figuring out that I needed to add a couple of Filter rules to enable this to work. Namely:

 

 

 

1 ;;; allow L2TP VPN (500,4500,1701/udp)
chain=input action=accept protocol=udp in-interface=pppoe-out1 dst-port=500,1701,4500 log=yes log-prefix="vpn"

 

2 ;;; allow L2TP VPN (ipsec-esp)
chain=input action=accept protocol=ipsec-esp in-interface=pppoe-out1 log=yes log-prefix="vpn"

 

 

 

Windows 10 clients are connecting and working fine with Certificate Authentication so I've assumed VPN is setup correctly.

 

 

 

Not so with my iPhone (IOS 11).

 

 

 

Filter log indicates:

 

jul/26 07:00:18 ipsec,info new ike2 SA (R): public.ip.address[500]-my.iphone.public.address[44774] spi:f3ac03c95c285edd:0b7eaa5b9a4d8b2d
jul/26 07:00:18 ipsec,error EAP not configured
jul/26 07:00:18 ipsec,info killing ike2 SA: public.ip.address[4500]-my.iphone.public.address[40931] spi:f3ac03c95c285edd:0b7eaa5b9a4d8b2d

 

 

 

But I'm not using EAP - at least I don't think I am. I found some info online about older IOS versions having a bug requiring EAP with certs. My iPhone VPN connection specifies Certificate Authentication. I have both Root cert and Client certs loaded, verified and trusted.

 

Has anyone encountered this? I'll play some more tonight but fallback plan may be to try a L2TP/IpSec connection instead. 

 

 


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cyril7
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  #2062738 26-Jul-2018 07:23
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Hi sorry cannot help, done lots of P2P vpn's with MT, but not to iOS, sorry.

Cyril



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  #2062748 26-Jul-2018 08:20
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Why are you using RSA?


sfrasernz

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  #2062766 26-Jul-2018 09:03
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Namely because that's what had some good documentation (I'm new to RouterOS). 

 

What would you recommend as an alternative?




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  #2062782 26-Jul-2018 09:36
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Personally, I just always do L2TP/IPsec VPNs for simplicity - especially with RouterOS which dynamically creates the IPsec proposals as L2TP tunnels come up.

 

Also, worth sticking another rule on your input chain to allow GRE (47).


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  #2062817 26-Jul-2018 10:14
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sfrasernz:

 

Namely because that's what had some good documentation (I'm new to RouterOS). 

 

What would you recommend as an alternative?

 

 

In their guide they refer to "Simple mutual PSK XAuth configuration". This is a pre-shared key plus username/password which is more commonly used. Though I cannot see any info about hooks into ldap or radius.

 

Might relevant for iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT204477

 

 

 

 


sfrasernz

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  #2062921 26-Jul-2018 11:57
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Thanks @vulcannz. 

 

@chevrolux - thanks. I'll do you as you suggest and move onto L2TP/IPSec this evening. 

 

 


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