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I still have issues with a VPN provider who insists on using their VPN client.
by molestrangler 9y ago
I still have issues with a VPN provider who insists on using their VPN client.
- bg0 9y agoAre there any nice free VPN Clients out there? I haven't been very lucky in finding any in the OS X realm
- codefined 9y agoOpenVPN is free and I use it pretty often. Supports both CLI & GUI. Would highly recommend it as an excellent client.
- atlgeek007 9y agoTunnelblick is the best option I've found for OpenVPN. If you're using IPSec then there's a client built into the OS.
- fancy_pantser 9y agoYou can use the MacOS Network settings to connect to most types of VPN (hit "+" and fill in the forms to add a new connection). For free, open-source clients, Tunnelblick is very common.
- xorbyte 9y agomacOS and iOS don't support OpenVPN with the built-in client. You can use strongSwan-based VPNs (e.g., as would be deployed through Algo) or Cisco, but for OpenVPN you'll need a custom client which, unfortunately, very likely brings along its own .kext.
- CountSessine 9y agoIs a .kext actually required for a vpn client? My understanding is that TunnelBlick just creates a tun network in user-space. Why would it need to be in the kernel?
- X-Istence 9y agoTunnelBlick comes with a tun/tap kext that is signed. This is not required on systems where Apple already has tun/tap support compiled in (not sure when that started, but it's been a long time) From the known issues page: "If you are running on OS X 10.6.8 or higher and using OpenVPN 2.3.4 or higher and using a TUN device, the default Tunnelblick setting to "Load Tun Automatically" (on the "Advanced" settings window) will avoid this problem by not loading the tun kext — OS X's built-in "utun" device will be used instead of a "tun" device."
- kfriede 9y agoI was hesitant to buy Viscosity, but it has been well worth the money.
- gluczywo 9y agoFruho is a decent VPN GUI on Linux
- pnutjam 9y agoBut the console is so easy to use; openvpn vpn_config.ovf There your done...
- Nullabillity 9y agoNetworkManager is pretty much the default GUI for most distros and DEs, and has built-in support for OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, SSH, etc... And it also integrates well with the Wifi setup, so you can easily set it up to automatically connect to the VPN when you connect to certain networks.
- joombaga 9y agoWorks great with Cisco Anyconnect too. My setup even automatically pulled an RSA token from my stoken config.
- post_break 9y agoSecure Pipes.
- oneweekwonder 9y agoAfter macOS deprecated pptp I stumbled upon the flow vpn client[0]. Replace the hostname, enter your credentials and it just works! [0]: https://www.flowvpn.com/download-mac/ https://www.flowvpn.com/download-mac/
- seaghost 9y agoViscocity https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/ https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/
- cisanti 9y agoViscosity is nice on Windows. I think it costs 10 bucks, though... on Linux I don't know, I use CL.