 | Nov 2 2009 |
CHEESECAKE I've been using this excellent software for a while to connect to office server running openvpn on windows server 2003 without any problems. If using an opensource solution, I prefer to use freewares on both client and server ends. Other clients on osx are good as well, but I don't think it's a good idea to charge customers for enhanced features of a free solution.
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 | May 27 2009 |
PLANBFOROPENOFFICE As of version 3.0b10 and Mac OS X 10.5.7 all works well. I run Tunnelblick very stable. So the comments below of it crashing or not working are obsolete. A big Thank you for a great free tool.
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| Aug 6 2009 |
NEUTRALZONE No, the comments below were fair. After Viscosity changed from free to paid software, I actually returned to Tunnelblick for a while, used it for a few more months with an open mind, but yet again it let me down, while Viscosity fixed problems faster. And Viscosity is easily AppleScriptable, which was important to me. So I ended up actually paying for Viscosity and am happy with that. I have respect for the Tunnelblick project, but for my needs, paying for Viscosity was worth it. It is not the only instance in my life where paid software turned out to be worth it over free software in terms of the real costs and benefits. This post is not about pushing Viscosity, but about saying that the reservations expressed about Tunnelblick by multiple users are VALID.
(Version 3.0b12) | |
| Jul 28 2008 |
PIRX Works flawlessly and reliably for me for more than a year, using Witopia VPN. Brilliant app, good work. Upgrade Maniacs on Leopard may have lots of issues with many other softwares as well, so it is not fair hammer each one developer for compatibility issues.
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| Jul 24 2008 |
NEUTRALZONE A day too late. I put up with Tunnelblick for months and just yesterday I switched to the new Viscosity, and I am amazed how much nicer and more stable it is.
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| Jul 4 2008 |
OTTO_M The developer seems to have given up more than half a year ago. There is an alternative that works fine in Leopard: Viscosity 0.4 Viscosity imports Tunnelblick configurations and has been running without problems for almost a week now.
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| Jun 26 2008 |
BUZZARD As with others, I am experiencing constant unexpected quits of Tunnelblick. So much so that the application is extremely frustrating to use. Unfortunately, I am using Witopia, and Witopia packages their paid VPN service with Tunnelblick. Accordingly, I have no other choice than to endure the constant instability of Tunnelblick. I am using OSX 10.5.3
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 | Jul 16 2008 |
GOOFBALL Buzzard, there are some alternative options that you could try. For one, WiTopia now offer a free PPTP connection with every personlVPN subscription (http://witopia.net/pptpmore.html). PPTP works fine with OS X's built-in VPN-connector. Additionally, you could try Shimo (shareware, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22929/shimo) which has proven to be an excellent VPN client and works great with OpenVPN (same VPN-technology used by Tunnelblick) as well as PPTP. Simply import your WiTopia profile (located at ~/Library/openvpn/openvpn.conf) and Shimo will automatically add the necessary keys and certificates (provided you have already installed WiTopia's Tunnelblick package). There also is another OpenVPN client for Mac called Viscosity (freeware, http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27875/viscosity). But I haven't tried this one yet since I use Shimo. Therefore, I can't tell you whether it works well with WiTopia. Since it's free you might want to try it first though. Judging from it's MacUpdate comments it also does a fine job of importing Tunnelblick profiles. BTW, I'm not associated with any of these products, just a satisfied customer of both WiTopia and Shimo.
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 | Mar 2 2008 |
XAD hang on leopard, please fix it!
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| Feb 9 2008 |
CHRISTOPH3 Same here. Tunnelblick dies and creates hung ovpn processes.
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| Nov 12 2007 |
PSYCHOS Tunnelblick unexpectedly quits for me sometimes. This seems to happen when changing network connections, but not always. (I'm semi-frequently switching between my Airport and an EV-DO card.) When it happens, it leaves behind a stray openvpn process that I have to manually kill before I can establish another VPN connection. Tunnelblick will actually establish a new connection successfully, but it will be unusable unless I've killed the old openvpn process first. I'm running 10.5 on a MBP, clean install. Worked fine under 10.4. Anyone else experiencing this under 10.5?
(Version 3.0b6) | |
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| Oct 29 2007 |
CHRISTOPH3 Set nameserver is broken with 10.5.
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| Oct 28 2007 |
ZEITKIND The new version (3.0b5) has a bad bug - it's NOT universal. The main binary is intel only (OpenVPN 2.0.9 i386-apple-darwin8.10.1), so it won't run on PPC machines. I was able to "fix" it by using the macports binary. Hope they will fix that soon.
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| Sep 17 2007 |
MAC-KIWI It's not working with the developer-preview 9A527(Leopard). :-(
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| May 21 2007 |
JONO Version 3.0b4 causes all kinds of trouble when an OpenVPN session is connected and then the Internet connection is unexpectedly broken (for example, unplugging an Ethernet cable to closing the lid). Almost every time, it removes my user name from the password file and I am forced to reboot.
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| Jul 26 2006 |
CHRISTOPH3 Version 3.0rc2 is broken. When I connect w/ my openvpn router I try to ping and I get not enough buffer space. Version 2 works though. But it doesn't support multiple listings like version 3.
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| Jul 4 2005 |
EDDIE Tunnelblick works nice together with my linux openvpn server. Very kewl ... Configuration might be a bit tricky, but, reading the openvpn docs might help :-)
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| Mar 2 2005 |
ANTTI MATTILA Openvpn.dmg file has buggy version (old) of openvpn, and -pull option causes trouble eaven. I compiled newer version from source, and that worked from command line. I did not get GUI to work, I could not see any log what happened. I just saw exclamation mark, that is "Error". Same configuration file worked fine when running from command line. Ugh.
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| May 31 2005 |
SIG Curious to try this. Did you open up a UDP port on your firewall (provided you had one)? Any tips you can share on getting this to work? Which VPN version did the install .dmg package include?
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