That's how I did it in FreeBSD, though with two NICs and not wireless. As an aside, I understand that the Mac will do WPA as a wireless client but only WEP as a wireless access point, which I don't like. But regarding your idea: My question is more about how to make this end route packets through the VPN for my entire LAN. I confess I don't remember very well how that works, though I know it included my making mpd (on FreeBSD) add a route to the machine's routing tables. Maybe the only difference between point-to-point (or remote-node) VPN access and LAN-to-LAN is a routing table change? I thought there was more to it. Sounds like I need to learn (or relearn) what I'm doing. :-)
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:52:59AM -0400, Scott Bresnahan wrote: Hi, I am not aware of a software solution to this, but from a hardware point, if you have an additional ethernet card, usb or even wireless, you could use your mac as a router, where the VPN went over one ethernet interface, and your lan was over the other, sharing your VPN connection. You should be able to test this easily by using the builtin ethernet as one interface and your wireless airport card as another. You would want to share your internet connection from the Sharing preferences pane. Of course, this limits you to the slower speeds of wireless, but is a good proof of concept. . Good luck. --Scott >Again not sure if this will relate to most people here, but just in >case... > >I see that the Mac can join a PPTP or L2TP VPN for itself, but I want >it to put my entire LAN on a VPN. I already have the other end of the >VPN prepared for this (it runs on FreeBSD), though sadly I can only do >PPTP at this point, not L2TP. I'm wondering if there's a way to make >the Mac handle this at my local end so my other machines become part >of the larger network. I did this with a utility called mpd in >FreeBSD, but the FreeBSD box is being slowly decommissioned here. > > >-- >Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] >SSB BART Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.ssbbartgroup.com >"If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, >you will not be made straight when you are dry." {African} -- --Scott -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] SSB BART Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ssbbartgroup.com "Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. {Ralph Waldo Emerson}
