Hi Scott, The suggestion is much appreciated. Without debating the merits of one VPN implementation over another, I think I need Open VPN as the network is a mixed platform Linux/Mac and Open VPN works well on everything except the Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard (including older Macs already on the network).
If anyone can give a guide or howto for forcing the the compile under macports to build i386 executable that would be very helpful. Thanks, Michael On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Scott Haneda wrote: > While I can not provide any specific help for this issue, I did want to point > out, that under 10.5, for over a year, I had VPN services working by doing > little more than settings up a plist, and installing a launchd item to keep > it going. > > I found iVPN, and was annoyed that there was such a high price on an app that > in my opinion, at least at the time, installed two files, and loaded a > launchd startup item. I bought it anyway, and could not get the license code > to work, so returned it and nuked everything that it put in. > > From there, I just started reading, and managed to hobble together the right > configs to use the built in OS X VPN server. It was not too bad. I updated > to 10.6 Snow Leopard on the machine I was VPN'ing into, so I have not had a > chance to set it all back up again. > > I also put 10.6 Server on the machine, which apparently has one click VPN > built in, so I may just use that. I thought you may want to try to set this > up by hand, as I do not see any need for additional software. > > I was actually going to make a port that installed those two files for you, > just have not had time. I will look into it again, as it was not a lot of > trouble at all, and just worked. > -- > Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ * > > On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Michael Hieb wrote: > > > Apologies if this is covered in the documentation or archives. I've looked > > and not found the clue I need. > > > > Problem: openvpn2 (@2.1.1.1) installed as default or universal on snow > > leopard has a bug in which it is unable to detect the default gateway and > > consequently cannot set up the proper routing tables. This was covered in a > > ticket from last year. > > > > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22689 > > > > To my knowledge no progress on the macport, though there is a patch > > apparently submitted to openvpn for linux and windows. > > > > http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-devel/2006-07/msg00003.html > > > > The macport ticket reports that if openvpn2 is installed as an i386 > > executable that the bug can be circumvented. The problem is that I haven't > > been able to figure out how to build openvpn2 as an i386 executable. > > Preferably I'd like to change the settings only for openvpn2 and not the > > entire macports installation. > > > > I have tried to date setting the configure.cflags-append in the openvpn2 > > portfile. e.g. > > > > configure.cflags-append = "-arch i386" > > > > and find the executable fails to build with multiple architectures (i386 > > and x86_64) > > > > I also tried to use a build_arch directive in the portfile but that is > > apparently not the correct place to use this directive. > > > > Apologies if I have overlooked the obvious and thanks for any clue provided. > > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
