Comments on: iVPN on Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.6

By: Mikkel Ovesen

Mikkel Ovesen — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:42:34 +0000

@Jeph Sorry have not tried the VPN trick on a machine with only 256 MB of ram, and I don’t think it is possible to make it work.

By: Jeph

Jeph — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:43:21 +0000

Thanks, this is extremely helpful. I have an old Mac Mini (first generation) that I’m running Tiger on, and wanted to see if this would work. Everything goes fine until I turn the VPN server on, at which point it sucks up all available RAM until my machine freezes. Granted, the machine is ancient and only has 256MB of memory, but I’m running nothing else on it and don’t see why VPN services would need much memory.

Any suggestions for a remedy would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for the great info!

By: Mikkel Ovesen

Mikkel Ovesen — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:35:49 +0000

@Matt

I am running 10.6.7 and it works fine here. I cannot start and stop the server manually, but set the VPN server to start on boot. Restart the machine and it works, at least here it does.

/ Mikkel

By: Matt Santana

Matt Santana — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:16:05 +0000

iVPN seems like a potential dream come true. I downloaded it and even installed it despite my apprehensions about being able to do so considering so many other apps that were designed for 10.5 or earlier seem to have a severe aversion to working under 10.6. I cannot get the iVPN server to actually start and I wonder if it doesn’t have something to do with the fact that I am running 10.6.7. Have you seen this issue before and do you know if iVPN 2.4b works with 10.6.7? I have not found any other useful information on this program =\

By: fresis

fresis — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:07:19 +0000

Mikkel:

Yes, was afraid that OSX 10.4.11 might allow the internet sharing that I was looking for; thought I’d ask the expert, though.

Many thanks!

By: Mikkel Ovesen

Mikkel Ovesen — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:47:28 +0000

@Fresis

I am not sure about internet sharing on OSX 10.4.11, maybe it is not possible on that version at all.

This was btw. all I could find http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8309880

I hope you can find the reason or a solution.
Mikkel

By: fresis

fresis — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:42:14 +0000

Hi! Seems like you might be able to help…

I currently have my Macbook Pro G4 (OSX 10.5.8) setup to 1. be connected to the internet via my airport extreme; 2. have my computer sign into a PPTP VPN; 3. have my airport express connected to the Macbook’s ethernet port; 4. share the internet via the airport express (through internet sharing). This has been working fine.

However, now would like to try creating the same setup using an older Macbook Pro G3 (OSX 10.4.11). I have the PPTP VPN set up on the G3, but the internet sharing preference panel for OSX 10.4.11 doesn’t have a drop-down for VPN.

So… how to share the VPN through the airport express via the G3′s ethernet port…?

Thanks a lot in advance!

By: Mikkel Ovesen

Mikkel Ovesen — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:23:06 +0000

@Leo: Thanks

I am unsure of what is causing your specific problems, as I would need some more info about your network setup. It would be easier if you could describe your network setup in detail. Are your mac Mini the PPTP VPN server? Is it connected via router to the internet? Are your OSX 10.6 Client and Windows maching connecting to your Mac Mini over the internet? or via the LAN?

But anyway here are some suggestions.

Your OSX 10.6 client: You should check “Send all traffic over VPN connection”, this make sure if you use the default gateway of the VPN or not. Have a look here

Win 7 machine: By default a Windows 7 VPN connections uses the VON connections default gateway (meaning all traffic is routed via the VPN connection). This can cause routing problem when you wish to access the internet. My advice would be to “Disable default gateway”. See more here.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:23:54 +0000

this post is really useful, I have setup a VPN network and can connect it….

but I still got some problem.
my osx 10.6 client cannot read the default gateway setting, it will simply use my man mini as the default gateway…. and
my win7 machine cannot set the default gate properly.. it just didn’t map to my default gateway setting, so this machine cannot browser other network except the private network.

is that the program of pptp script? or cause by other reason?

thx

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