[vpn-help] ShrewSoft VPN Client on Mac OS X Mavericks

Dan Bennett dan at dan-bennett.me
Mon Apr 7 09:30:21 CDT 2014


Hi Jim

It's not undesirable. That's exactly what I want to do but sadly it doesn't work as it uses The Cisco method which is different to just standard IPSec (apparently). 

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Dan Bennett
Radio Presenter, Music Producer & DJ

http://dan-bennett.me

> On 3 Apr 2014, at 21:31, Jim Harle <vpn at technicolor.com> wrote:
> 
> I didn’t know running Shrew under OS X was possible, but am curious to know why using the native IPsec client in OS X is undesirable.
>  
> From: vpn-help [mailto:vpn-help-bounces at lists.shrew.net] On Behalf Of Dan Bennett
> Sent: Thursday, April 3, 2014 10:58 AM
> To: vpn-help at lists.shrew.net
> Subject: [vpn-help] ShrewSoft VPN Client on Mac OS X Mavericks
>  
> I had ShrewSoft VPN running on OS X Mountain Lion and that seemed to work fine (after installing the additional software that a google search gave me). However, since upgrading to Mavericks, this hasn’t worked entirely well.
>  
> It connects fine, however the connection does keep pinging out and so access to the IPs that the VPN listens for is incredibly laggy and difficult to use.
>  
> Is there an alternative method to getting ShrewSoft VPN Client working on OS X Mavericks?
> Ideally - is there a way of getting it to work within OS X’s own VPN settings within System Preferences -> Network?
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Dan
>  
>  
> Dan Bennett
> Radio Presenter, Music Producer & DJ
>  
> http://dan-bennett.me
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