01.21.03

Looking for OSX ethertap equivalent

Posted in Apple at 11:20 pm by Craig

So Network Associates has (IMHO) some badly misconfigured firewalls, which don’t let most kinds of traffic *out*. Now some of these rules are really odd. For example IMAP is OK, but IMAPS is blocked. More or less all UDP is blocked. Pretty much everything else is blocked. So, if I were running linux, I’d just set up an ethertap, then have the remote end of the tap tunnelling through to my house over an SSH connection (they do allow outbound SSH) and then route everything locally through the tap. Trouble is, my laptop is running OSX — and I can’t find any docs on how to set up an ethernet tap equivalent there. I have found the Firewall-piercing mini-HOWTO, so maybe that will have some suggestions for alternatives which I can make work on OSX.

2 Comments »

  1. Stefan Seiz said,

    January 29, 2003 at 12:44 pm

    Craig,

    take a look at this article:
    (look at page 2 specifically) i guess using this PPP over SSH tunnel you can achieve what you need?

    I am surprised though, NA doesn’t offer any VPN access for you.

  2. Stefan Seiz said,

    January 29, 2003 at 12:46 pm

    hey, i pasted the url to the article but after submitting the comment form, your blog-software stripped the url. So here i try again: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html

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