Error 850 When Connecting to Vyatta VPN With Windows 8

While setting up a Windows 8 workstation to connect to a Brocade Vyatta firewall on RackSpace Cloud, I got the following error:

Error 850: The Extensible Authentication Protocol type required for authentication of the remote access connection is not installed on your computer.

Turns out the fix is pretty simple – on the Connections Properties -> Security tab we need to explicitly set the authentication protocols as shown in this image:

Credit goes to Brendan at SysadminSpot for providing this solution:

Error Connecting to VPN – Error 850: The Extensible Authentication Protocol type required for authentication…

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