Setting up a VPN on OSX lion behind a openbsd firewall

Hello All,
I've been trying to get a VPN up and running on OSX Lion (10.7.4) behind an openbsd firewall.
I'm currently using L2TP only.
From what I've read I think I have the correct ports being forwarded:
udp 500,1701,4500
tcp 1723
From an IPhone I am able to connect and authenticate but traffic does not get routed through the VPN.
Is there anything obvious I'm missing?
Thanks in advance.

more information:
I was attempting to get an iphone set up to use this VPN. It was able to authenticate but it seems it would not route any traffic through the VPN.
I was just able to get my linux laptop configured to use the OSX VPN via openswan, which I think was slightly more difficult due to NAT on both ends.
Any tips for getting IOS working with this OSX VPN behind the firewall? Thanks.

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