setup VPN Server on Panther

[mkwan]

is there a way to setup a VPN Server on Panther?

thanks

mkwan

[sentinal2k1]

Hi there.

There are several ways to do what you're looking, and a lot of it depends on cost. One way is to purchase mac os X server, which comes with built in VPN server software.

Another, more affordable, solution, is to purchase a hardware VPN/Firewall router. This allows you to setup this box to handle all of your VPN requests, and it scans everything with its firewall.

These boxes don't cost an incredible amount, I think they start at around $100. If you do decide to look for a box, make sure it can be the VPN server. A lot of boxes that say VPN on it, only mean they pass through VPN requests.

Hope this helps.

[scruffy]

Typically the difference between the server and client versions of OS X is that the server has nice GUI tools to configure stuff. The client version still has all the same utilities under the hood; you just can't be afraid of writing your own config files by hand.

Check out this series of articles
http://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/ipsec-(1-6).html
Note - that URL won't work - replace the (1-6) with the numbers from 1 to 6; it's a six part series of articles.
and
http://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/vpnd.html

And this long discussion on macosxhints.com where people figured out how to do it, literally by downloading the source code from Apple (it's part of the open source components of the OS) and figuring out how it works.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...p/t-16937.html