Yeah almostVPN is pretty awkward but once you get it to work it somehow makes sense. Also, I've been in touch with the developer and future version is in the works.
It is well worth the effort if you are willing to put in a little work.
Create ssh tunnel mac trial#
It took a bit of trial and error but eventually I got it going. It supports nearly all of the switches and optimization rules available through the terminal commands. AlmostVPN is not as polished and the documentation is a bit lacking BUT it provides all kinds of configuration options. It also does not play nice with OSX 10.5. It automates the setup of basic tunnels but lacks advanced functionality. Please let us know if you are using something better! Meerkat is the more polished of the two but is limited in functionality. The two best (for OSX) that I've found are Meerkat ( ) and AlmostVPN ( ). I looked at a few of the publicly available GUI tools.
But I didn't want to have to remount the tunnel with every login. Once you dig into the man pages and examples it is pretty straight forward. You can do other fun things like securely access an insecure pop mail account, or pipe all of your traffic to an external server thereby avoiding local firewall rules and surveillance (good for work). Using an SSH tunnel means that only one port needs to be open on the firewall and other protocols tunnel through that port (good for security and simplicity) and it allows for easily and safely mount remote disks in Finder via AFP. I've been tooling around with tunneling protocols through an SSH pipe.
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