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How can I change the MTU of a Cisco Anyconnect VPN?
On my macOS 10.15 I have to use the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client 4.8 to connect to the VPN of my university.
The connection is much slower than usual, probably because the MTU of 1300 is ...
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Is it possible to use SonicWall Global VPN on a Mac without installing third party software?
I use the SonicWall Gobal VPN Client on Windows to connect to a VPN.
Is it possible to use this VPN on Yosemite without having to install third-party software, just creating a new connection on ...
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macOS prompts for password every time I turn on my VPN
Every time I turn on a VPN I added manually to Network preferences a password prompt appears
macOS wants to make changes. Enter an administrator's name and password to allow this.
macOS wants to use ...
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On MacOS, how do I figure out which network interface my VPN is using?
I use surfshark vpn and I'd like to figure out which network interface it is using when I connect to it. On Windows, this is simple. I just type ipconfig and can easily locate it. On MacOS, I type ...
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Program wont connect through OpenVPN
I have a MAC M1 that needs to run a windows native app (no MAC option of such app) and to do so I installed a Windows 11 arm x64 with VmWare Fusion - the app that runs needs to connect to SQL on my ...
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MacBook not connecting anywhere via VPN
I was wondering if someone could help me troubleshoot this issue.
I have a handful of VPNs set up on my MacBook (Snow Leopard) which I know are working, but today when I tried to use them I get the ...
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How to selectively route network traffic through VPN on Mac OS X Leopard?
I don't want to send all my network traffic down to VPN when I'm connected to my company's network (via VPN) from home. For example, when I'm working from home, I would like to be able to backup all ...
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Use guest vm vpn from host
I have a vpn connexion inside a vm and I want to use it from the host.
The host is a MacOS Ventura M2 and the guest is a windows 11, Im using parallels.
Is it possible ?
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OpenVPN server forcing OS X clients to reboot before re-connecting
An OS X client (Tunnelblick) is able to connect to the OpenVPN server.
However, if Tunnelblick disconnects, attempting to re-connect fails with this error, repeating every 5 seconds:
2017-07-13 15:...
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How can I route network traffic through another computer on my network?
I have a MacBook, a home network, five mobile hotspots, and five Raspberry Pis.
Each Pi is connected simultaneously to one mobile hotspot via wireless network, and to my home network via ethernet ...
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MacOs - Keep SMB server mounts alive on temporary VPN connection drops/reconnects
I am using SSTP VPN Connections (via SSTPc) on my MacBook and am mounting manually SMB Drives from the VPN Network.
Hwr, anytime my VPN Connection drops, my Mounts are unmounted and not there in ...
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How to route Cisco Anyconnect (work VPN) directly through Wifi instead of non-work VPN?
I have a very specific requirement for my setup.
I have bought a third-party VPN (e.g. ExpressVPN) for personal use. I use Mac's inbuilt client to connect to this. The corresponding network interface ...
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Why L2TP VPN not working on Monterey
The VPN connection of Big Sur was totally fine. But when I upgraded to Monterey, I could only ping to my office LAN but not use any applications like ssh and connecting to jupyterhub. I checked the ...
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Access VPN Network From LAN Device
I have a Router which is connected to Internet. I have a Laptop and a Android Device which is connected to this router (Router Does NAT ). My Laptop also have a VPN interface to connect to a ...
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Internet completely messed up after closing VPN
I use a VPN from time to time that lets me access certain resources (eg. music sites) that would normally be restricted to the US. I recently got an account for PrivateInternetAccess which works fine ...
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How to route certain applications through a VPN and others to use my 'standard' connection in OSX 10.6?
I am currently working abroad and use my company's VPN for FTP and some browsing. This is a relatively slow connection and while it is suitable for those VPN necessities; much of my other internet ...
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How can I use my iMac as a firewall for my Windows computer?
I have a 2011 iMac running macOS High Sierra (10.13), which I use for browsing and streaming, besides my Windows computer.
Since I don't have a 5ghz WiFi adapter on my PC, I share the iMac internet ...
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How to setup my WD EX2 NAS for remote access
I have recently bought a WD EX2 Ultra which is working fine in my local network. Now I want to set it up for remote access, so I can access it when I am not in my local network.
There is a way to ...
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Connect to VPN through another VPN
On Mac I use a VPN to connect to the office network, can i make that connection see my IP as coming from a different country by first connecting to another VPN?
I'm using SurfShark as client, I can ...
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How to SSH into VM running within Parallels on OSX while connected via Junos Pulse VPN?
I am working with OS X 10.9 and Parallels Desktop 9. Within Parallels I run a Linux VM using a Shared Network setting.
If I am on my company network I able to SSH into the VM from my OS X terminal (...
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Cannot connect to internet unless I disable packet forwarding on a mac
After using a VPN client (hide.me) it seems that I cannot connect to the internet unless I run this command:
sudo pfctl -d
As per their documentation here: https://hide.me/en/knowledgebase/how-to-...
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Using Windows Connection Manager based VPN on macOS
IT department of my company sent me a zip file for connecting to our corporate VPN. I understand that it is a deployable Windows VPN client called “Connection Manager” and it was prepared with Windows ...
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What does Mac's "Send all traffic over VPN connection" do?
I'm using OSX Mavericks at the moment. Looking through VPN options (L2TP in my case), I see that it is possible to "Send all traffic over VPN connection".
However, I cannot figure out if I don't ...
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Connecting MacOS to an OpenVPN server using the OpenVPN Connect Client
I have a Netgear Nighthawk router which contains a VPN server. I want to connect my Macbook to the VPN.
I have done the following so far:
Installed the OpenVPN Connect client on my Macbook
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Make a Mac machine with Cisco AnyConnect VPN on accessible by other computers on 192.168.1.x
I have an ASUS router at home, which is connected to the modem to access the internet. Two computers are connected to the ASUS router via wireless connection (subnet 192.168.1.x). When I use VPN (...
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VMware Fusion Windows 10 Guest can't connect to VPN
I'm running a Windows 10 guest VM on an OS X host. The Windows VPN client is unable to connect to a VPN server. It says "Connecting to VPN" then "Verifying your sign-in info", then after spinning for ...
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L2TP/IPSec On Mac Failed to connect
I am connecting to a VPN Server set up following instructions in https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
And I setup the clients following https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn/blob/master/...
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Adapting Cisco AnyConnect vpnagentd fix for OSX
I'm attempting to find a solution to allowing split-tunnelling with the Cisco AnyConnect client for OSX. I've found how it is modifying the firewall, and that's possible to fix. The issue is however ...
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Connecting a Mavericks Mac to VPN using Forticlient
I´ve tried to connect to VPN using an account I was given, this account doesn´t have any shared secret, as fas as I know , they don´t provide any shared secret, their main argument is that my PC peers ...
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MacOS: unable to reach internal network (VPN)
multiple users from our office (including me) cannot get VPN to work on their Macs.
Problem is, that we are successfully connected to the VPN but cannot reach internal servers via IP address. (ie. ...
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How to find out which network device is used to reach a given server
I have an overly complicated developer network setup with Ethernet, WLAN and VPN.
I can connect to certain server but I need to know which actual network device / router was used to make the ...
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Mac OS X Cisco IPsec VPN can't access hosts after connecting
I can successfully connect to my VPN server (at work) using the builtin Cisco IPsec VPN client in OS X but once connected I can't access any of the servers.
If I connect to my phone's hotspot and try ...
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Shared VPN on home server
I am looking into getting a VPN service, something like NORDvpn or similar but I want to run the app on my Mac server and route all my internet traffic from my MacBookPro's, Sky Q box, iPhone's etc ...
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Sharing OpenVPN on Mac OS X Yosemite
Up until OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I had been sharing OpenVPN connection in this way .
However, ever since I updated my Mac to the latest OS, this method becomes no longer valid. I did some google ...
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How are sites blocked on public WiFi?
I have a MacBook Pro High Sierra v10.13.6
At a coffee shop, I was trying to Google an answer to a question, but it seemed like most sites, including StackExchange were blocked or "inaccessible". ...
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Mac (Mojave) asks for VPN authentication but no VPN exists
After messing around with various Mac OS betas, I wiped my drive, installed Mojave beta, and migrated settings from a timemachine backup.
I now get a popup asking for a VPN password - "VPN Connection ...
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Connect to VPN without Cisco AnyConnect
My college offers a VPN service to connect to the campus network via the AnyConnect client from Cisco.
Since I don't like to install proprietary software for a functionality that pretty much every ...
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Application / interface specific routing
I have a routing configuration whose intention is to route all traffic through a tunnel (utun3) into an openvpn client which then connects to the openvpn server (64.120.44.114) via my physical ...
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sharing internet/vpn with ipfw, can't access google.com over https
I am sharing my internet connection / IKEv2 VPN connection over pf via Murus static NAT. My network architecture is as follows:
internet modem ->
wired router (serving 192.168.1.1/24) ->
Mac ...
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How to make a VPN kill-switch for mac OS X
What I wanna do is to have the internet connection disabled completely when the VPN connection goes down. I am connecting to my VPN (privatevpn.com) through Viscosity.
I have tried everything in the ...
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Sharing a VPN connection
There are similar question to this but none seem to give a direct answer to my question.
Goal: Connect to a Windows machine behind a L2TP/IPSec VPN using RDP from a Linux machine that doesn't support ...
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Virtualbox host-only network route is preempted by Pulse Secure VPN client
Virtualbox becomes unavailable for incoming connections from host OS when VPN is on. Accordingly, I cannot use http/ssh/rdp clients to access guest OS from host OS while Pulse Secure VPN stays ...
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VPN - Accessing computer outside of network. Only works one way
I could use some help here. My ideal goal is to create a VPN for 2 macs that are in different locations so that they can share each others screens and share files. I basically want to do what Logmein'...
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How to route all internet traffic from a Mac OS into a WIndows VM
I am currently using a Mac (OS Sierra) with Windows OS (Win7) running under Parallels.
When I work remotely, I have to connect to my company's VPN. Unfortunately the VPN software is only compatible ...
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How to add routing for 2 VPN connections?
I am trying to setup second VPN connection over the first one, which is my only option at the moment. The first VPN connection works fine(utun1), providing me internet access and it looks like this:
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Setup PPTP to access home network transparently
I have Raspberry Pi box connected to home WiFi-router and running pptpd. The local addresses is 192.168.1.32 (eth0) and 192.168.2.1 (ppp0) and local name raspberry.local.
I have iMac connected to ...
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Virtualbox fails when I'm connected to an OpenVPN server
Some days ago, VirtualBox started to fail when I'm connected to a VPN. If my computer isn't connected to the VPN, everything works fine. I can start VMs, stop them, and so on. But if my computer is ...
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Connect to a home VPN with a restricted proxy-server in between (macOS)
The network in my university is restricted by a http proxy-server (with authentification). The problem is, that most of my applications are not usable as long as I'm in that network, because they not ...
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MAC OSX Routes Table
If I add a route such as route -n add 10.10.10.10 10.255.255.255 i can reach the server under 10.10.10.10, BUT if i add a route route -n add 10.0.0.0/24 10.255.255.255 and remove the other, i can't ...
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VPN connection failure
I recently changed my internet provider and after that I couldn't connect to my work's VPN anymore. I change my router to a TP-Link WR840N but that didn't work. The IPSec pass through is enabled in ...
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