Our FortiGate 80E has been humming along for years now with a handful of remote users connecting via VPN without issues. I've been setting up more and more users (sadly BYOD), and while most have no problems, there's a handful that repeatedly get the message " unable to establish the VPN connection. The VPN server may be unreachable (-14)".

Technical Note: FortiClient SSL VPN connection status gets FortiClient v5.2: FortiClient v5.4: Description. This article provides a possible solution for the SSL VPN connection attempt stopping at a status of 40% with the warning message "Unable to establish the VPN connection. The VPN server may be unreachable. (-5)". Solution. Fortinet Knowledge Base - View Document Rating: (25 Ratings) (25 Ratings) Solución: Unable to establish the vpn connection. the vpn Oct 01, 2018

[SOLVED] FortiClient VPN connection error.. - Firewalls

Technical Note: Error ’Unable to establish the VPN

Make sure you have the internet connection. The 80% of this issue getting by not having the internet connection. If the above options are not working, please contact your IT Help-desk to check the server issues as a hit the traffic at the moment or a any downtime at the server.

Our FortiGate 80E has been humming along for years now with a handful of remote users connecting via VPN without issues. I've been setting up more and more users (sadly BYOD), and while most have no problems, there's a handful that repeatedly get the message " unable to establish the VPN connection. The VPN server may be unreachable (-14)".