I want to create a pptp Vpn connection programmatically in Ios 8. I followed this link. By the help of this link i am able to create an IPSec Vpn connection in ios.
But i need to create a pptp vpn connection if any one know about it then please help me how to do it i am very stuck in it.
As far as I know, there is no pptp api support in iOS (currently 9.3.4). The only supported protocols are
IKEv1 (IPSec)
IKEv2 (AES and certificates)
To use these, have a look at NEVPNManager and NEVPNProtocolIPSec class reference.
There's also a good example here:
http://ramezanpour.net/post/2014/08/03/configure-and-manage-vpn-connections-programmatically-in-ios-8/
If you really want to to have pptp, then you have to write your own extension, using the Network Extension framework and for that you need a special entitlement from apple, i.e. you have to write them an email and explain why you need this right.
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In iOS settings, there are options to create a VPN configuration using IPSec, IKEv2, and L2TP. Using the NetworkExtension framework from Apple there's an option to create VPN using IPSec and IKEv2 protocols only. They do work but problem is that I need to create a connection via L2TP since that's only supported by the company's firewall.
There's a question iOS app with custom VPN connect from 2014 and it's answered with:
If you want to connect programmatically in ios 8 you can use only IPSec or IKEv2 protocols. L2TP and PPTP protocols are private for apple. It is not possible to use L2TP and PPTP APIs in your applications. Only Apple is currently using these APIs.
Is there any way to create a L2TP VPN connection from an iOS application (Swift)?
The Personal VPN feature that allows using built-in protocols doesn't support unencrypted protocols, presumably for security reasons:
Personal VPN only supports recommended VPN protocols; it doesn’t support legacy VPN protocols, like PPTP and L2TP.
However, that's not the only way to implement a VPN app. You can also create a Packet Tunnel Provider to tunnel layer 3 packets yourself, or an App Proxy Provider for TCP and UDP connections. A packet tunnel provider would allow using your own L2TP implementation.
This might be solving the wrong problem, though. If this is for a specific company, why not use MDM instead of a custom app? MDM does support L2TP.
It is not possible to create a L2TP VPN connection from an iOS application. Only Apple is currently using the L2TP and PPTP APIs.
Is it possible that the company this is for has some sort of internal framework or package you can use for their VPN authentication within your app?
You can make use of every proxy app available on Android playstore. Basically youre iOS device will make use of the hostpot from android phone.
Remember youre android phone must be connected to L2TP VPN.
Every proxy will put all the connection of VPN shared to iOS device.
iOS device in settings we need to add ip and port. You will now be connected to VPN on iOS.
You can try hosting an l2tp server on your mac and connect another device remotely to the server using the settings->network->vpn->l2tp and provide the settings. I haven't tried it personally. On the iPhone General->VPN Management->L2tp can be used.
After some research I saw that IPSec is built-in in iOS Network Extension. Unfortunately, IPSec does not fit our needs.
OpenVPN would be great for our needs but it needs custom implementation of the OpenVPN source code - which is something we would like to avoid because of the difficulty of estimate the amount of work and license issues.
That's why I would like to know if there are other built-in VPN protocols than IPSec in iOS Network Extension so that I can check if it could meet our needs.
In Network extension, there is the class NEVPNProtocol. In the description of this class, we can see that the class NEVPNProtocolIPSec implements IPSec VPN. But I can't see any other VPN built-in protocol.
Could anyone tel me if he knows of other VPN built-in implementation than IPSec ?
Thanks in advance,
"For NEVPNManager objects, this property can be set to either an NEVPNProtocolIPSec object or an NEVPNProtocolIKEv2 object."
For SSL connections, According to the NetworkExtension API reference:
You can use the NETunnelProvider family of APIs to connect iOS and macOS devices to a VPN server that uses a non-standard network tunneling protocol, such as an SSL-VPN server.
I would also be interested in any further information anyone has about using openVPN in Swift apps.
My client would like me to write a VPN client for IOS (IOS 9.2). The VPN client is supposed to use SSL to connect to an openVPN server. I will be using the NEVPNManager class provided by apple (The NEVPNManager class has a class method (sharedManager) that provides access to a single NEVPNManager instance. This is the class method I plan on using). I would like to set the protocol for this shared manager to SSL. Is this possible ? Or am I restricted to the NEVPNProtocolIPSec and NEVPNProtocolIKEv2 protocols ?
P.S :- I don't want to use the NETunnelProvider family of APIs. I understand that these are newer APIs that allows one to use their own custom protocols, but apparently using the NETunnelProvider family of protocols requires special entitlements from Apple (which could take up to a month to get), but client wants something sooner.
I contacted apple and got the following response :-
"No. NEVPNManager is used to set up “Personal VPN”, which always uses built-in VPN transports (IPsec or IKEv2). There’s no built-in transport for SSL-based VPNs, so if you want to set that up you have to either write your own transport (which involves NETunnelProvider, which involves special entitlements) or use some other approach (like a configuration profile)."
Looking at VPN configuration in apple's Configurator tool, it offers many different types of VPN, such as
L2TP
PPTP
Cisco AnyConnect
Juniper SSL
Check Point Mobile VPN
etc
I'd like to create a custom VPN configuration programmatically using NEVPNManager, however looking at the list of objects added in the NetworkExtension framework there are only 2 protocol classes - NEVPNProtocolIPSec and NEVPNProtocolIKEv2.
I'm new to the world of VPN's, so my question is this:
Are those proprietary VPN types (such as Cisco AnyConnect) just variations of IPSec or IKEv2, and thus can I set them up using one of those protocol classes, or is it not currently possible to do this with NEVPNManager
You can implement your own version of VPN via NEVPNManager, but you can't use it to set up / edit other VPNs (such as Cisco).
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I've recently noticed that some iOS applications, such as the Astrill VPN Client, are able to create and dial VPN connections. In this specific case they seem to be Cisco IPSEC connections. I have not been able to locate any official Apple documentation on how to do this. Can anyone please tell me how this is possible?
Please note that I know how to configure VPN connections manually. The reason I want my application to do it is to provide an idiot proof and streamlined process for customers.
These iOS apps achieve this by installing a VPN dialling profile that contains a VPN On Demand setting for a specific network and then simply try to connect to an address on that network, which prompts iOS to establish the VPN connection.
VPN On Demand can only be enabled for the IPSec (Cisco) connection type. You can create a dialling profile to do this using the iPhone Configuration Utility to see how it works.