VPN software and OS X?
From what I can tell MacOS X comes with no software that allows you to create a network tunnel or VPN. I have looked around and there aren't many friendly solutions out there. CISCO provides a fairly easy to use UI, but the company I am working at does not use CISCO for there VPN. In fact our company use an SSL based solution and I am having difficulty working out what to do.
Two questions, is there any software around that would allow me to do that and would you want Apple to provide some basic VPN software, with the Apple ease of use, with a future version of MacOS X?
Two questions, is there any software around that would allow me to do that and would you want Apple to provide some basic VPN software, with the Apple ease of use, with a future version of MacOS X?
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Originally posted by ajmas
From what I can tell MacOS X comes with no software that allows you to create a network tunnel or VPN. I have looked around and there aren't many friendly solutions out there. CISCO provides a fairly easy to use UI, but the company I am working at does not use CISCO for there VPN. In fact our company use an SSL based solution and I am having difficulty working out what to do.
Two questions, is there any software around that would allow me to do that and would you want Apple to provide some basic VPN software, with the Apple ease of use, with a future version of MacOS X?
Actually, Tiger does do VPN connections, I can't recall what you have to do, just go to system preferences and do a spotlight search on VPN it should come up.
Now, if you're talking about doing remote desktop, then that's another matter all together. I installed X11, and used rdesktop.
Originally posted by ajmas
From what I can tell MacOS X comes with no software that allows you to create a network tunnel or VPN. I have looked around and there aren't many friendly solutions out there. CISCO provides a fairly easy to use UI, but the company I am working at does not use CISCO for there VPN. In fact our company use an SSL based solution and I am having difficulty working out what to do.
Two questions, is there any software around that would allow me to do that and would you want Apple to provide some basic VPN software, with the Apple ease of use, with a future version of MacOS X?
Originally posted by wgauvin
Actually, Tiger does do VPN connections, I can't recall what you have to do, just go to system preferences and do a spotlight search on VPN it should come up.
You need OSX server for standard (build-in) VPN services.
Originally posted by ajmas
From what I can tell MacOS X comes with no software that allows you to create a network tunnel or VPN. I have looked around and there aren't many friendly solutions out there. CISCO provides a fairly easy to use UI, but the company I am working at does not use CISCO for there VPN. In fact our company use an SSL based solution and I am having difficulty working out what to do.
Two questions, is there any software around that would allow me to do that and would you want Apple to provide some basic VPN software, with the Apple ease of use, with a future version of MacOS X?
Actually there is a very nice solution here:
DigiTunnel
(Mod Note: Fixed URL - JL)
Originally posted by BigBlue
You need OSX server for standard (build-in) VPN services.
I will take a look at the above solutions. Though it would be nice for Apple to provide something on the client end of things.
If your connecting to a Cisco VPN you have to use the Cisco VPN client, which Cisco only makes available if your company has one ;-)
"Aventail is using SSL encapsulation, we are using IPSec, these two are worlds
apart. IPSec is several layers lower than SSL and works completely
differently. So this is a no go."
Its what I suspected, but at least I know for sure.