10-09-2011, 06:14 PM
My wife has a VPN client provided by her work but we were curious about how OS X does it.
But the fields to fill in look different, and her IT's department is Macintosh ignorant.
The 3rd party app has what I expected to see, an IP or server address name to input and the company's domain name along with the usual userid and password. We were told to use the IP address with :4300 port number appended, which we did.
But in OS we're first asked to choose the VPN type from a popup and "service name" before proceeding. Is the service name anything we want, just a name for the connection we decide upon?
And since VPN is a "new connection type" in the Network sys prefs, how will it know if we're going through Ethernet or WiFi, etc?
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One annoyance with using the 3rd party VPN client is that when you disconnect from it, the Mac still is setup to use the company's domain and so web sites fail until we manually renew DHCP so that it once again finds our ISP.
But the fields to fill in look different, and her IT's department is Macintosh ignorant.
The 3rd party app has what I expected to see, an IP or server address name to input and the company's domain name along with the usual userid and password. We were told to use the IP address with :4300 port number appended, which we did.
But in OS we're first asked to choose the VPN type from a popup and "service name" before proceeding. Is the service name anything we want, just a name for the connection we decide upon?
And since VPN is a "new connection type" in the Network sys prefs, how will it know if we're going through Ethernet or WiFi, etc?
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One annoyance with using the 3rd party VPN client is that when you disconnect from it, the Mac still is setup to use the company's domain and so web sites fail until we manually renew DHCP so that it once again finds our ISP.