[AusNOG] IPSec VPN and Vodafone 3G ?

[David Hughes]

Hi all,

After yet another large bill from too much Telstra tethering through my iPhone I grabbed a Vodafone wireless broadband stick for use when I'm in metro areas.  Only problem is that I can't hold up an IPSec VPN over it.  Tried native IPSec and also IPSec over UDP.  Spoke to Vodafone and they swapped my account onto a public IP address (nice to have) but still no go.  They tell me that as it's not a Vodafone VPN they don't support it.  Tried to explain that it's normal Internet VPN and it works over every other internet connection I have.  No dice.  They just don't get it - even the escalation guy didn't know what IPSec was.

So, before I start looking at debug logs, anyone out there been down this path before?  Cisco VPN client talking to a router over Voda?


Thanks

David
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