A VPN conundrum/puzzle for the crowd. 🙂
I can successfully connect via either L2TP or IKE from my iMacPro to my home network (Internet-box 3 serving 1Gbps connection). However, the connection keeps dropping under load (always about 20-40 mins after initial connect).
I’m trying to backup with Time-Machine to my Synology D918+ NAS using SMB3 and it has worked very well for several years now (in the same LAN). Over VPN not so much. It kicks off and about 20-40 mins into the backup, the connection drops. I’ve tried both IKE and L2TP, and have tweaked various settings, but am still getting no joy.
My current last resort is sniffing the connection with WireShark and trying to find the cause, but it’s not working very well.
Main question: How can I keep the VPN connection alive and are there restrictions for heavier (but sporadic) VPN uses like this?
Any helpful ideas are very welcome. 🙂
Home Network: Swisscom 1Gbps: Internet Box 3, Synology D918+ NAS
Remote Network: iWay 1Gbps: Fritz!Box 5490: Mac OSX Sonoma (iMacPro)