Mavericks Server, VPN is trashed

[vraiment]

I have a mac home server (real MacMini, no hackintosh). It had Mountain Lion and the Server app. I had correctly configured my router to forward the VPN ports to the server and everything worked well.

Then I updated to Mavericks and the new Server app and, surprise! the VPN server no longer works outside my network. Inside my network I can connect to the VPN if I use the local IP, but if I use my external IP it fails to connect.

Reading the Apple Discussion forums it seems I'm not the only one, so anyone has any ideas?

Thanks

 

[synnys]

i have the same problem.

hope they fix it soon...

 

[synnys]

at the apple support forum, someone says that you can get it to work if you use pptp, although i haven't checked this myself.

 

[vraiment]

I read that, but I can't log in via PPTP.

 

[litoscu]

Has anyone been able to run the Server on a Hackintosh? Which settings should be used? I get an error saying that it won't run on "this type of computer"...

Thank you in advance for any and all replies.

 

[tom.humphrey]

Has OS X Server ever actually worked properly?

I tried it a while back and got frustrated/fed up with it not working. Haven't even bothered to try using mavericks server.

I was using ivpn to host a vpn server instead which works flawlessly in the future though I'm planning to have a raspberry pi running a vpn server for my network (lot less power consumption)

 

[jherm]

Did you try disabling 'Back to my Mac' on your Mac / Airport?

I had this same issue with L2TP+IPSEC and it took me months to find the Apple KB article that says they're incompatible.

You may also want to disable it on other Macs on your local LAN...