I run a home-office with a linux server, it runs redhat fedora core, with POPTOP installed (www.poptop.org)
With my old toshiba laptop, when at a remote location on some random net connection I can VPN into my linux server, it grants me an IP from my home-office subnet, and things work as normal.
Not so with my new MacBook Pro.
I can connect and authenticate to my home VPN server using OS X, it says I'm connected, it even gives me an IP.. (I can see it in ifconfig from terminal)
It just doesnt seem to be routing ALL traffic over the VPN on the MacBook. Despite the option in the VPN settings telling it to do so (a tick box).
I had a mate help me test. He was at his place, with his powerbook (latest ver of MAC OS X)... he VPN'd in, he was given an IP.. I could ping his machine, and I could browse his shares... whilst i was in my home office, on the LAN, with my Macbook Pro.
He couldnt see my server's shares, or my laptops shares.
odd.
I do have a firewall on the Linux machine, I wonder if this is a problem. I wouldn't think so considering the windows laptop works fine.
I guess I should do some more testing.
If anyone has any experience with this kinda stuff, let me know what you think!
commercial wireless hotspots are becoming more and more available here in Australia (thanks Telstra) at reasonable prices. It'd be nice to VPN to the home-office while at a hotspot and have my network filesystem, etc...
James
With my old toshiba laptop, when at a remote location on some random net connection I can VPN into my linux server, it grants me an IP from my home-office subnet, and things work as normal.
Not so with my new MacBook Pro.
I can connect and authenticate to my home VPN server using OS X, it says I'm connected, it even gives me an IP.. (I can see it in ifconfig from terminal)
It just doesnt seem to be routing ALL traffic over the VPN on the MacBook. Despite the option in the VPN settings telling it to do so (a tick box).
I had a mate help me test. He was at his place, with his powerbook (latest ver of MAC OS X)... he VPN'd in, he was given an IP.. I could ping his machine, and I could browse his shares... whilst i was in my home office, on the LAN, with my Macbook Pro.
He couldnt see my server's shares, or my laptops shares.
odd.
I do have a firewall on the Linux machine, I wonder if this is a problem. I wouldn't think so considering the windows laptop works fine.
I guess I should do some more testing.
If anyone has any experience with this kinda stuff, let me know what you think!
commercial wireless hotspots are becoming more and more available here in Australia (thanks Telstra) at reasonable prices. It'd be nice to VPN to the home-office while at a hotspot and have my network filesystem, etc...
James