Installing OPENVPN2 as i386 on Snow Leopard

[Scott Haneda]

While I can not provide any specific help for this issue, I did want to point out, that under 10.5, for over a year, I had VPN services working by doing little more than settings up a plist, and installing a launchd item to keep it going.

I found iVPN, and was annoyed that there was such a high price on an app that in my opinion, at least at the time, installed two files, and loaded a launchd startup item.  I bought it anyway, and could not get the license code to work, so returned it and nuked everything that it put in.

From there, I just started reading, and managed to hobble together the right configs to use the built in OS X VPN server.  It was not too bad.  I updated to 10.6 Snow Leopard on the machine I was VPN'ing into, so I have not had a chance to set it all back up again.

I also put 10.6 Server on the machine, which apparently has one click VPN built in, so I may just use that.  I thought you may want to try to set this up by hand, as I do not see any need for additional software.

I was actually going to make a port that installed those two files for you, just have not had time.  I will look into it again, as it was not a lot of trouble at all, and just worked.
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On Jan 30, 2010, at 2:54 AM, Michael Hieb wrote:

> Apologies if this is covered in the documentation or archives. I've looked and not found the clue I need.
> 
> Problem: openvpn2 (@2.1.1.1) installed as default or universal on snow leopard has a bug in which it is unable to detect the default gateway and consequently cannot set up the proper routing tables. This was covered in a ticket from last year.
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/22689
> 
> To my knowledge no progress on the macport, though there is a patch apparently submitted to openvpn for linux and windows.
> 
> http://openvpn.net/archive/openvpn-devel/2006-07/msg00003.html
> 
> The macport ticket reports that if openvpn2 is installed as an i386 executable that the bug can be circumvented. The problem is that I haven't been able to figure out how to build openvpn2 as an i386 executable. Preferably I'd like to change the settings only for openvpn2 and not the entire macports installation.
> 
> I have tried to date setting the configure.cflags-append in the openvpn2 portfile. e.g.
> 
> configure.cflags-append = "-arch i386"
> 
> and find the executable fails to build with multiple architectures (i386 and x86_64)
> 
> I also tried to use a build_arch directive in the portfile but that is apparently not the correct place to use this directive.
> 
> Apologies if I have overlooked the obvious and thanks for any clue provided.