tinc on macosx

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 08:23:24AM +1000, mike at goodlook.com.au wrote:

> So I bought a new macbook 2 days ago. I already feel like I'm going to break
> it somehow.  I am kind of surprised that there is no kind of package
> management system like dpkg being used. Anyway..

Have a look at Fink: http://www.finkproject.org/. They appear to have a package
of an older version of tinc:

http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/tinc

> I have a few questions. I installed the tuntaposx driver and set up the
> machine to connect to the network. Connected, and all good.
> I am running tinc in switch mode, and have a dhcp server giving out
> addresses.
> 
> When tinc connects, it does not receive a dhcp address. In my tinc-up file,
> and running the command manually:
> $ sudo ipconfig tun0 set dhcp
> 
> i get:
> 
> ipconfig_set tun0 DHCP failed: invalid operation

Ah, you need to use /dev/tap0 instead of /dev/tun0 for switch mode.

> The other question I had was, how do you make it run at startup?  I see in
> the login preferences you can run commands/applications, but that's for the
> user, not root.
> 
> If you're running Macosx, how have you set your machine up with tinc? Do you
> run the command with the configuration parameter every time like in the wiki?

I do not know that, but maybe others on the list can tell you.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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