My apologies if this question has been asked before. I am trying to get an Android phone device to connect to our VPN but have had no success. I am able to connect an IOS phone or a Mac book, The Meraki documentation shows how to make a connection, using L2TP and IPSEC. I believe our VPN is configured only for L2TP with a secret password.
Setting up the connections on the Apple products was easy and worked first time every time, and did not require an IPSEC pre-shared key. On the Android device, I cannot save a setting without having a IPSEC pre-shared key. Anybody had success with this? Will appreciate any help you can offer. Do I need to use a 3rd party VPN client application? If so which one do you suggest?
Thank you
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that becomes the IPSEC preshared key field value
when keying the settings into my phone, i have the following fields shown when Type is PPTP (default value)
Name:
Type:
Server Address:
[ ] PPP encryption (MFPS)
[ ] Show advanced options
When i change Type to L2TP/IPSec PSK, i get a new set of fields:
Name:
Type: L2TP/IPSec PSK
Server Address:
L2TP secret: (not used)
IPSec identifier: (not used)
IPSec preshared key: <your secret password>
[ ] Show advanced options
hope that helps 🙂
should work with the default Android vpn client
with the settings
https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Client_VPN/Client_VPN_OS_Configuration#Android
-l2tp/ipsec psk
-IP
- ip sec psk
-username, password
Thank you for posting a reply to my question.
I did use that link as a reference to create the VPN connection in an Android phone, the trouble I am having is, I cannot save the connection in the Android phone if I do not specify a IPSEC pre-shared key. I do not know what the IPSEC pre-shared key is. Is the key available somewhere on the Meraki dashboard? When I set up the VPN on apple devices, I did not need an IPSEC pre-shared key, I only provided a L2TP shared secret password.
just tested this now myself after reading this
Oneplus one phone connected to VPN using L2TP/IPSEC PSK
I assume you you know the secret password?
on the oneplus:
Give name
Type: L2TP/IPSEC PSK
Server: server ip
skip rest till IPSec preshared key: type in PSK key
Save, then connect
Dashboard/Network/-wide/Clients show me listed.
don't need to include domain name <domainname>\<userid> it appears if using AD for authentication
L2TP secret is not used, your PSK key goes in the IPSEC preshared key field 🙂
Yes, I do know the secret password. Does that become the IPSEC PSK? Or do I find that elsewhere in the Meraki Dashboard?
that becomes the IPSEC preshared key field value
when keying the settings into my phone, i have the following fields shown when Type is PPTP (default value)
Name:
Type:
Server Address:
[ ] PPP encryption (MFPS)
[ ] Show advanced options
When i change Type to L2TP/IPSec PSK, i get a new set of fields:
Name:
Type: L2TP/IPSec PSK
Server Address:
L2TP secret: (not used)
IPSec identifier: (not used)
IPSec preshared key: <your secret password>
[ ] Show advanced options
hope that helps 🙂
Ok, thank you.
Will try that out and see how it goes. Will report my findings back here.
Yes, success!
Established a connection with the VPN with an Android phone only using the shared secret password as PSK.
Thank you.
woohoo! - great stuff 🙂