tinc on macosx

[Donald Pearson]

I think the answer to the "run at startup" question may be in this article.

http://osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/HowTo/Startup/index.ws

Scroll down a bit for the meat.

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:

> 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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