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BR500 Mac VPN problem with Big Sur
My office has a br500 vpn router, and all the macs at home connect to it to do work. With big Sur, we are not able to connect any longer. The client software Netgear recomends - tunnelblick - no long...
Well, i dont really care about blame. I just need to know how to either modify the vpn the br500 has built in so that it doesn't require either the tap or tun (whichever is the one thats causing issue) or have netgear recommend or support a solution for their product so that all platforms can log in and use the vpn.
Any suggestions on how to move forward?
To early. Big Sur is in Beta - so nobody will provide you with a ready solution today.
TAP and TUN are two methods known in OpenVPN for a bride resp. a tunneled connection. No TAP and no TUN == no OpenVPN. Somehow a VPN network interface must be included into MacOS.
gregmiller wrote:Any suggestions on how to move forward?
Disable SIP - the suggested workaround by the makers of Tunnelblick for now - does not work?
Probably the Open Source world does come up with a solution (Apple permitting), probably the OpenVPN team does come with a solution (Apple permitting), probably Netgear does develop an OpenVPN solution for MacOS OpenVPN (Apple permitting). I don't know.
Matter of fact Apple does try to prohibit something very useful for the sake of SIP. Appears Apple does try to make it difficult at least.
Face it: The OpenVPN solution (used by many Open Source and commercial VPN solutions) by using Tunnelblick is becoming wonky, this became visible on earlier communication ref. SIP.
Have read and understood the Tunnelblick link provided above?
Worst case: Be prepared to be without a OpenVPN based VPN from day X on your MacOS system.
Potentially, Netgear will come up with a solution for using IPsec not only for a site-to-site, but also for a IPsec based "dial-up" VPN - YeZ please.
In case it looks I'm not happy with Apple. Yes, I'm not impressed.
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