Re: anyone use OpenVPN or WireGuard on OS X 10.9.5?

[René J . V . Bertin]

On Saturday December 09 2023 12:26:05 Steven Smith wrote:

>Yes, I used OpenVPN. For a decent configuration, see:

After trying several GUI wrappers in their legacy version for 10.9 which all 
failed with similar errors I discovered that OpenVPN2 can take the 
configuration files that you can download from ProtonVPN after setting up an 
account (even a free one). It does need the kext installed through 
port:tuntaposx and you need to execute the command as root. That's probably 
where the convenience wrappers fail.

>I rely on Tunnelblick to manage the connection. I’ve tried to migrate the 
>Tunnelblick build to MacPorts, without any success:

The currently available sources require a pretty new OS version to build, IIRC.

R.

anyone use OpenVPN or WireGuard on OS X 10.9.5?

[René J . V . Bertin]

Hi,

Does anybody here use WireGuard or OpenVPN on Mac OS X 10.9.5, maybe even with 
Proton VPN as I'm hoping to do?

I managed to get a 2021 version of wireguard-go to build but it fails to 
initialise (create a "utun" interface) with a message about buffer space not 
available, so that avenue seems closed. Pity, because it should have given an 
easy way to start or stop a VPN connection via the CLI (`wg-quick up|down 
`).

I tried to build OpenVPN3 but that generates more errors than I care to work 
around, but OpenVPN2 built easily enough. I just have no idea yet how to test 
if it works; the Proton VPN instructions state just how to use Tunnelblick to 
set up a connection (and that application needs at least 10.11 IIUC). Are there 
similar helper apps that do work on 10.9?

Thanks!
R.