![]() ![]() ![]() See the revisit of this post for details. Update: Actually, it turns out this checkbox does exist in Mac OS X and it is much easier to use than the method I describe below. It simply requires some knowledge of the point-to-point daemon (pppd). Us Mac users are not so fortunate, since such a feature does not exist in the internet-connect utility. The VPN tunnel will then only be used for traffic to that subnet, not for all outgoing traffic. ![]() Windows users have a checkbox “use default gateway on remote network” for this purpose. While this might not always be desirable, our universe has actually disallowed it, thus leaving us no choice but to block it in the firewall. In real life, this is not always the case, since, for example, allowing a user to use the network’s gateway causes unnessecary strain on the internet connection, but worse: it allows the user access to any resources the gateway has access to. In most situations, when you connect to a virtual private network, it’s only logical you become a full member of that network, with access to all of its resources. Recently, I’ve been having some trouble getting my VPN connections to work the way I wanted them to on my Mac OS X Tiger machine. 12 January, 2006 Disable VPN default gateway on Mac OS X ![]()
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