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It would be nice if someone would come forward to maintain OpenVPN + tun on Mac OSX. It's been a while since the driver was written and I seem to be hearing more problem reports lately about it. The driver was originally written/ported by Christoph Pfisterer, but unfortunately it appears that he can no longer maintain it. His web site says: "Important: I am no longer able to work on the tunnel driver. I'm still looking for a new maintainer. If you send me e-mail with questions about the tunnel driver, don't expect an answer. Sorry." ( http://chrisp.de/en/projects/tunnel.html ) Unfortunately, maintaining all the tun/tap drivers on all the OSes supported by OpenVPN is something beyond the scope of what the OpenVPN project, by itself, can achieve. Right now only the Win32 tun/tap driver is officially part of the OpenVPN distro and the OpenVPN project must really depend on the kernel hackers of other OSes to keep their tun/tap drivers up-to-date. James JPM <jpm_tmp2@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Adam V. Richards <avrich <at> orem.verio.net> writes: > > > > > Has anyone gotten Mac OSX (10.3) working w/ OpenVPN, tunnel style? > > > > For some CRIMINAL reason, Apple did not include a tun driver!! I thought > > Darwin was FreeBSD-based??... Anyway, I was able to find a driver that had > > been worked on at one time: > > Sob. They provide a gif device, which openvpn cannot use... > > > but I think there might be a memory leak somewhere because when I get it > > up and running w/ openvpn, the whole system crashes when I try downloading > > (or streaming) something of any substance, like an ISO image, Quicktime > > stream, etc. It also makes you wonder when they say unloading the kernel > > module can cause a kernel crash/panic... heh. > > I run openvpn on a slot loading imac (G3@500MHz, 1GB Ram) running X.3. I do > not experience crashes with my computer, simply a complete network stall ;): > - I have installed the tunnel package so it loads at boot time. Works > perfectly well as long as you have set the correct file privileges. (All as > described in the tunnel documentation) > - When running openvpn and loading the link (downloading an iso image, for > example), the network stops responding after a random amount of time. My mac > does not crash, it stalls. > There is a workaround: use bandwidth throttling; There is a keyword for this > in openvpn. I have throttled the *remote end* of the VPN to 90kB/s and since > then my iMac is rock solid. > > > As I don't currently have a Mac I can spend a lot of time on to track down > > this issues myself, I would love to hear any Mac 10.3 openvpn tun success > > stories out there! :) [no, tap is not an option] > > I did spend a lot of time, and mailed James Yonan, Christoph Pfisterer (and > even Apple) about this. James can't fix this easily, Christoph did not ack my > mail so I'd say Apple is our best hope :-( > > Note that I have read from another openvpn user who seems very happy using > X.3, tunnel and openvpn 1.5 on a powerbook G4. > > Good luck, > --JPM > > > Thanks. > > > > -Adam > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software > > Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver > > higher performing products faster, at low TCO. > > http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software > Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver > higher performing products faster, at low TCO. > http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > -- ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |