could I turn my iMac into a VPN gateway using VPN Tracker Server?

zynizen · #1 August 17th, 2007, 11:59 AM

I have a few computers in my house, and all share files via one iMac.

could I use this software from equinux, to allow the iMac to establish a vpn server, so others friends/family can connect to it while away from the house to do work etc.. ?

http://www.equinux.com/us/products/v...ver/index.html

Thanks.

zynizen · #2 August 23rd, 2007, 12:34 PM

does nobody know if you can use a program like this to turn a regular OSX Tiger machine into a VPN machine? thanks!

**Giaguara** · #3 August 23rd, 2007, 02:59 PM

Hm..
As long as your Tiger isn't Intel based.

Some reviews from customers using that :
http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=9150

This is an interesting comment - I would like to verify more if this is still the case before employing this software anywhere :

The installer edits the file /etc/authorization and also creates an invisible world-writable file. The application won't run if the permissions of that file are changed. That's not my idea of how a security tool should behave. (4/7/2005, Version: 3.6)

Versiontracker doesn't have any reviews or comments http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22051 for it.

It seems to work for the users based on reviews. Maybe it could be worth getting the 30 day free trial and seeing if it does what you need. Meanwhile there may be some other software options for it as well ..