Remote Access Woes - this should be easy

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I love Peplink products but I’ve had a love /hate relationship with remote access for a long time. To be fair, I’m not a network guy but I usually get things working.
I’m using a Balance Two with firmware 8.1.1 with a static I which gives me a ping from the outside. I have a Windoiws 11 lap[top with the latest updates.

I enabled L2Tp , plugged in the pass key on both client and router , setup user and password, and forwarded ports 1701, 4500, 500,to ANY. See pic. What am I missing? Thank you!

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Anyway, I’ve been trying to get remote access to to work before going on a deployment for 2 months. It should be simple. I enabled LT2Pwith IPSEC, ensured both WANs are selected for inbound. available for inbound setup the username and password, forwarded

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Your UDP 1701 rule remove the source port its the destination you need.
Your IP protocol 50 rule is set to TCP instead of IP - it should look like:

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IPSEC requires IP Protocol 51 as well.

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For what the IP 50? No, its not TCP or UDP.