Hi Steve,

Yes it does.

 - Morten.


2013/9/19 Steve Lund <[email protected]>

> Morten,
>
> Can you open a web browser within your ec2 instance and go to ipchicken?
> Does the ip it detects match the static ip you assigned to the ec2 instance?
>
> -Steve
> On Sep 19, 2013 1:20 PM, "Jim Harle" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Morten – this sure sounds like your provider is intending for you to
>> establish a “site-to-site” tunnel between network equipment, as opposed to
>> a “client-to-gateway” connection.  If it were the latter, than the provider
>> would be telling you how to make that connection and what client software
>> to use.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Perhaps I’m over-simplifying, but that’s just how I read it.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> -Jim****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
>> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Morten Brix Pedersen
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 16, 2013 1:43 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [vpn-help] VPN setup****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Hi,****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I'm pretty new to VPN so I am looking for much appreciated help.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> We need to connect to an external system/API, which requires a
>> VPN-connection.****
>>
>> From the provider we have received information on the ip address on the
>> VPN peer and a preshared key. Further we had to give them our public ip in
>> order to restrict connections from just our ip.****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> I setup an AWS EC2 Instance (Windows) and installed Shrew Soft VPN. I am
>> then trying to connect to their ip with the preshared key using IPSec, but
>> the only thing showing up is:****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>     bringing up tunnel ...****
>>
>>     negotiation timout occurred****
>>
>>     tunnel disabled****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> One thing I notice in the VPN Trace tool is that "Destination" is our
>> servers private ip address and not the public ip address that we gave them.
>> ****
>>
>> On AWS EC2, it does not seem possible to register the network interface
>> with the public ip. Is there a way to override this destination ip?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> How can I debug this further?****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>> Thanks****
>>
>> ** **
>>
>>  - Morten.****
>>
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