Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station and VPN
Just a quick blog to warn people of a problem that I had last week with my AirPort Extreme Base Station and my company VPN.
1st off let me say when I spoke to Apple Support they told me that Apple to not support any VPN on there router’s, NOT what they told me when I bought the AirPort Extreme Base Station so that didn’t put me in a good mood.
Last week I was unable to connect to my company VPN (Nortel Client) after a number of different test I worked out that it was my AirPort Extreme Base Station that was the problem. After speaking to Apple I found out that earlier in the Week Apple had updated my Router and that is want caused the problem with my VPN.
To fix the problem i had to revert to the previous version of the software (The version that caused the problem was 7.3.1 and I had to revert to 7.2.1)
To fix the problem using my Mac I had do follow
- Open Airport Utility
- Click on Manual Setup
- Click on Base Station (On the Menu)
- Click Upload Firmware
- From the drop down choose 7.2.1
- Click OK
After the restart all should be good, at least mine is now working.
