A VPN is a Virtual Private Network, an encrypted connection from one computer (e.g. a home one) to another network (e.g. a work one). It can also be between two networks.
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How do I automatically connect to a VPN when using Wi-Fi in OS X?
The FBI issued a warning regarding hotel Wi-Fi access points, and any other public access point.
I'd like to make sure my apple device always uses a VPN when using Wi-Fi. That way even if an attacker ...
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How do I emulate Internet Sharing from the command line?
I'm trying to set up my Macbook Air to share an OpenVPN connection for use while I'm on the road and don't want my iOS traffic to go over the open Internet. Sadly, Mountain Lion's Internet Sharing ...
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How do I set up a VPN on a DMZ'd iMac?
I have an iMac set up as my server machine. On the network, it is in the DMZ. The rest of the computers in the network use an internal 10.0.0.x IP.
I have OS X Server's VPN set to give clients IPs in ...
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How to selectively route traffic for one specified IP adddress through the VPN tunnel (not all traffic)?
Goal: To selectively route traffic over a VPN, so that general browsing/downloads goes via the normal primary connection, with my business VPN traffic going over the VPN.
I have tried a similar ...
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Secure VPN configuration in iPhone for malicious WIFI hotspots
I would like to use a secure VPN configuration in my iPhone (iOS 5.1), to be able to use Internet thru hostile wifi hotspots.
I have already configured an IPSec tunnel to a server I control. I can ...
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How to only route office traffic over the VPN while having default route for other traffic?
I have a VPN to my office and would like to route only office traffic over the VPN while maintaining my default route for other traffic.
I have attempted the following:
sudo route delete default
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How to define the VPN PPTP port in OSX Lion?
Is there any change to set the port to use when connecting to a PPTP VPN from a Mac?
I configured a VPN at home from Server 2008 so I can access my home server and use ports like RDP, VNC, IMAPS ...
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Why is the VPN switch sometimes missing from settings on my iPad?
There is a VPN switch in settings that often appears below the wifi option in settings on iOS:
(the above image is from a website and not my iPad, as I can't seem to get my iPad to show VPN right ...
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How do you list clients connected to OS X Server 10.8's VPN?
The 10.6 Server manual says this:
but it doesn't work on 10.8.
Even a Terminal command would be great.
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OS X Server 10.7.4: VPN Authentication Failed for new users
I can't seem to get new users to access VPN on our OS X Server. If I use my login credentials with the VPN connection, everything works. But when I change to a recently created user I get a error ...
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Set timeout on idle for VPN?
Anyway to set a idle timeout on VPN? I want my VPN connection to drop automatically after idling for 5 minutes.
Using Lion 10.7.3 and built-in VPN Client (Cisco IPsec).
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sharing wifi from OpenVPN
I can turn my Mac into a wifi AP with the system's Sharing. In this configuration I share my connection from Ethernet.
But how can I share my connection from OpenVPN?
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How do I configure a VPN in Lion?
I've tried to configure VPN in Lion (both L2TP and PPTP), but it never connected successfully.
The same VPN works fine in Windows 7 and the iPad and other mobile devices, so I think it could be a ...
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How to troubleshoot Network Connect issues?
I have to use Juniper's Network Connect to use my company's VPN. I haven't changed anything on my system in the past few days, but suddenly Network Connect fails to connect to the VPN with the ...
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How to connect to a VPN with PPTP that uses CHAP and MS-CHAP?
My employer recently changed our VPN that we use while working remote and sent some new instructions for setting up our windows machines to connect to it.
Following the instructions, I basically just ...
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Can't access Xserve through Aventail SSL VPN with AD authentication
In testing our Aventail SSL VPN with Mac clients we're finding that once connected to the VPN we can't access Xserve shares when authenticating via Active Directory like we normally do on our internal ...
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OS X iOS VPN issues
I setup a VPN server on my Buffalo WHR-HP-G300N router at Macau, and use it for access website over China Firewall when i travel in China. On Android and Windows, everything work fine, however on my ...
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VPN mountain lion server not working
I cannot connect to my mac server using a VPN connection from outside my LAN. I can connect from inside which means that the VPN server on Mountain Lion is working. When I look at the logs on my ...
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iPad - Setup both PPTP and L2TP VPNs - blocked by firewall - can I use the 'Proxy' settings to evade?
I'm using the VPN Express app to setup PPTP and L2TP connections. It automatically sets the VPN profiles up successfully for me. When I try to connect, get error messages telling me that the server ...
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Forcing VPN on demand to “on”
When we install an iOS configuration profile for Cisco IPSec "VPN on Demand" (using certificate based machine authentication), a switch appears in the Settings > VPN Settings page: "Connect On Demand ...
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Routing all traffic except a few IP-ranges though default gateway in Mountain Lion
I am using VPN (Cisco IPSec) through the default Mountain Lion network preferences. In Lion (and also in Snow Leopard), I did the following to change the routing back to using my default gateway for ...
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Automatically setting custom routes with the internal VPN (IPSec/L2TP) client
I have a IPSec/L2TP (PSK) VPN I'm connecting to with OSX's built in client through the System Preferences > Network (in Lion/10.7.2). The VPN gives me an IP of 10.0.1/24, but I need to access servers ...
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IPv6 router advertisements for PPP0 (VPN) on the iPhone
I use IPv6 on the iPhone and it is working fine on the WiFi - I have radvd (router advertisement deamon) in the router and iPhone gets configured automatically.
Problem is when I use VPN through the ...
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“Connect” button greyed out in “Network” window
Under "System Preferences: Network", I have a VPN login. The "Server Address" and "Account Name" fields are filled in, and, in the "Authentication Settings" subwindow, so are the "Shared Secret" and ...
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Xserve VPN L2TP cannot see LDAP
After quite a bit of mucking around and getting no VPN activity through my router, I finally resolved that issue.
Only my local users can authenticate through VPN, any user from LDAP receives "The ...
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OSX 10.8.2 installs routes on second ppp connection to the wrong interface
When I connect to a 3G connection it installs an interface ppp0 and a default gateway all OK:
netstat -rn
Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use ...
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Possible to use OSX's built-in Cisco IPSec VPN on a custom port?
From my googling and personal experience, I've determined that OSX's IPSec is extremely hard to get working for some people. It turns out I'm one of those people.
Using what I believe are the correct ...
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Connect to VPN before login
Is there a way to connect to a VPN before/during the login window appears? I have bound my computer to an Active Directory server, but the AD server can only be found after the connection to the VPN ...
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Mac Mini with VPN — > Wifi — > devices
I have a Mac Mini with VPN (Witopia) which I like to share the VPN to my other devices, especially Apple TV
The following solutions won't work
Make an adhoc network
Internet Sharing (doesnt work ...
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OpenVPN on iOS can't connect
I have an account on an OpenVPN server and I can confirm that it is working, because i can connect to it from a win7 machine. But when i try to connect to it from the iOS OpenVPN app, it gets stuck in ...
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Is there a way to get an Airport Extreme to coexist with a second router offering VPN?
Essentially, I want add VPN functionality to my home-office domain so I can access it from other locations, and allow the occasional other person to access it this way.
Obviously, the two routers ...
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VPN and Wifi start with same 192.168.1.x
On my Macbook Pro I have recently added a VPN connection to the server at work. Now, my Wifi network at home uses the following IP block: 192.168.1.x as does the VPN from work.
So when my MBP tries ...
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Restricting Applications to Specific Interface For Added VPN Security
I am trying to find a way (either software or using terminal) to bind certain applications to my VPN interface (untun0). I have looked at every firewall solution available for OS X 7 and none of them ...
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How can I set the Java version default to 32bit via command line?
I have a few 10.6.8 users with the last official Cisco VPNClient.app, 4.90.280, who continuously received the "error 51" on launch despite not being booted into 64-bit.
Manually running sudo kextload ...
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How to set Citrix to load default Java client instead of default TS on Mac OS 10.8.2
I'm trying to fix an important issue we are having with my juniper VPN. There are no issues with PC connecting to VPN from any Microsoft OS.. just with some Apple computers running OSX 10.8.2...
So ...
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How can I share an OpenVPN connection with the rest of my home network
I've signed up with an OpenVPN provider, and would like to share that connection across my home network (send all internet traffic out encrypted to a VPN server). I've tried this blog post and ...
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Facebook Messenger - Enable Voice call outside U.S
Is there any way for me outside U.S to enable Facebook Messenger voice calls on my iPhone now? Hack? Or is it working with a vpn-tunnel thru U.S ?
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VPN between home and iPad does not work on work Wi-Fi?
I am trying to create a VPN on my Mac that will allow me to access my home internet connection from my iPad in a remote location. I have been using the program "iVPN" on the Mac to "distribute" the ...
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Viscosity OpenVPN Tunnelblick Connect but all rdp connections go dead after about 10 minutes
symptons:
Open viscosity, select appropriate connection.
Wait until connection resolves, get an IP address.
Use Microsoft Remote Desktop connection Client for Mac
- Version 2.1.1 (110309)
Everything ...
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Routing incoming networking traffic from a specific source to a VPN
I have a local network with an OS X Mountain Lion server (ip 10.0.0.2), which is connected to a VPN (interface ppp0). This Server is the default gateway for the computers in the network.
The VPN is ...
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Why are there VPN-related log entries in my iPad's console log when I'm not using any VPN?
I'm seeing entries related to VPN access in my iPad's system log (via an app called 'System Console'), but I don't know why they're appearing. I've never used a VPN or any form of remote access ...
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GlimmerBlocker for iOS VPN clients
I would like to find a way for iOS VPN clients to make use of GlimmerBlocker installed on the VPN server. Internet access via VPN works fine otherwise.
The setup:
OS X 10.6 Server with VPN service ...
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Incoming VPN through Airport Extreme drops after a few seconds
I use public wi-fi access points a lot with my early 2011 MBP running Mountain Lion, and my iPad 3, and I thought I'd create a VPN on my home network to add a little more security.
I've set-up an ...
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How to share L2TP connection via ethernet port using Internet Sharing?
In System Preference/Sharing/Internet Sharing, under "Share your connection from:" I have selected "PTPP" and under “To computers using:” I have selected "Ethernet" to share my VPN connection with ...
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Selectively route VPN traffic - how do I determine subnet value?
I'm trying to route just specific traffic (a specific domain) on my Mac over my company VPN. This seems to be the most recommended way to do it,
Create the file /etc/ppp/ip-up with following ...
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Running older version of OpenOVPN on OSX Lion
The current situation: I need to connect to an Astaro VPN box. Currently the only way to connect is using the Astaro Client for Windows. Normally any OpenVPN client (Viscosity, Tunnelblick, openvpn ...
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Airplay speakers stop playing when VPN connection is established
I have Zeppelin Air from B&W which works great most of the time. However during VPN connection to different work places during VPN connection Airplay stops playing. If I then go to iTunes and play ...
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How can I share one Mac's VPN with another mac?
I've upgraded my iMac to Lion and that broke my VPN to work (Check Point's Connectra SNX--it's browser-based, so it does not use OS X built-in VPN). Long story short, until there's a fix, I want to ...
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Macbook VPN Connection
my Macbook pro's VPN disconnects two minutes after it connects. I change the account and I had no luck with it. Any idea?
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How do I set up the VPN server included in OSX 10.6?
I've seen the existing question but none of the resources it mentioned worked for me; the blog entry resulted in a VPN server that started, but that I could not reach, and the iVPN beta (2.4b) ...
