I get visual confirmation that the tunnel is working from the fortigate GUI but, it also says i don't have 1 byte of traffic, the linux server also confirms the tunnel is open but i can't ping nowhere,
my conn
conn office
#left side is home
left=%defaultroute
leftsubnet=192.168.3.0/24
#right side is work
#set right to vpn remote gateway
right=201.174.xxx.xxx
#set rightsubnet to remote network
rightsubnet=192.168.1.0/24
keyexchange=ike
#auth=esp
#auto=start
authby=secret
#specify encryption FortiGate VPN uses
esp=3des
#perfect forward secrecy (default yes)
#pfs=no
#optionally enable compression
compress=yes
ping test :
-- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6000ms
on the fortigate I did add the nesesary routes and policies as stated in the manual.
Best Answer
I was using a virtual machine to test the vpn, that was a mistake, since my modem had no physical interface for the virtual machine, it assumed it was on port 2 and gave dmz access to port 2 while my physical computer containing the virtual machine was on port 1, after wrtitting my virtual machine to a physical unit, and configuring DMZ the vpn started transfering.