VPN Client for Mac OS X Leopard?

[mac57mac57]

I am looking for a VPN client for Mac OS X Leopard, and Google is not being too helpful. I rather doubt that there are any current VPN clients, but I have to ask. I work around an issue with my home router by VPN'ing out and back in again.

If anyone has any pointers to a PPC VPN client for Leopard, I would love to hear it. Thanks!

 

[Bigwaff]

What specific VPN protocol?

 

[mac57mac57]

I honestly can't say ... not familiar with the protocol versions, so the most recent available, I suppose. It must also be compatible with someone's network of VPN servers

 

[Bigwaff]

I honestly can't say ...

You'll have to find out, especially if you are connecting to "someone's network of VPN servers." There are two layers of compatibility here. First, the actual VPN protocol type used by the servers and, second, whether a Mac OS X Leopard compatible VPN client even supports the "most recent available" of a particular protocol type. The networking stack in Mac OS has changed so much since Leopard was released. For example, OpenVPN doesn't even provide downloads for older versions of the client as it hasn't been maintained and isn't considered safe to use. You can try Tunnelblick client (if OpenVPN is VPN)

Deprecated Downloads - Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software GUI for Mac OS X.

Deprecated Downloads - Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software GUI for Mac OS X.. Includes OpenVPN, OpenSSL, easy-rsa, and drivers.

tunnelblick.net

 

[mac57mac57]

Thanks @Bigwaff .. the more I think about it, the more I realize that it was a silly question. Thanks for all your feedback, but I think I was "off the rails" to start with on this one.

 

[bobesch]

Thanks @Bigwaff .. the more I think about it, the more I realize that it was a silly question. Thanks for all your feedback, but I think I was "off the rails" to start with on this one.

Hi, that was not a silly question at all!
I would be great to have a VPN-Client with "CiscoIPsec" protocol for Leopard/PPC.
A few years ago I've unsuccessfully spent a lot of time to find such a VPN-Client too,
but unfortunately there hadn't been a single one.
I'm just a one-trick-pony. A more experienced person might successfully utilize the inbuilt VPN-options,
that Leopard does offer, but unfortunately there's no "CiscoIPsec" as with newer early-intel-Macs.

 

[mac57mac57]

@bobesch, in your signature block, where it says "64K", did you mean "68K"?

 

[bobesch]

@bobesch, in your signature block, where it says "64K", did you mean "68K"?

Yeah thanks, very attentive, 64k was meant to be 68k.
Actually a 68k Macintosh Classic came to me as a present 35 years after my first encounter with Apple computers.
In 1988 as as student I didn't have any interest in computers at all - but that kind of Macintosh was presented in a shop-window as the only item and took my attention every time I passed by.
After a long time with DOS and Windows I've got my first intel Mac in 2009 - but that Macintosh from 1988 initiated the the idea of once buying a Mac ...
Well, certainly mixed up 68k with the "64" of RAM and CPU.

 

[mac57mac57]

I understand! I used Macs for years at work, then we switched to PCs in the Win95 era. However, the idea of buying a Mac stuck with me, and after years of using DOS/Win as my personal computers, in 2006 I too took the plunge and got the very Power Mac G5 DP 2.3 GHz that I am typing this message on now! It has had, and continues to have, a long and productive life!