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Shrew Soft Mac OSX vpn client

Shrew Soft have a Mac OSX port of the VPN client based on the head ( 2.2.x ) sources. It seems that it requires more testing, but it appears to be more or less stable.

There are two requirements / dependency before running the native install package (.dmg file)

1) Install the LGPL Qt Framework for Mac OSX.
http://files.linux-addicted.net/qtproject/archive/qt/4.7/qt-mac-opensource-4.7.1.dmg

2) Install the current release of the TUN/TAP driver for Mac OSX.
http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/download.xhtml

3. The finally, install the Shrew Soft VPN client.
http://www.shrew.net/download/vpn/vpn-client-install.dmg

You should now find the VPN Access manager in the Application folder. This have been tested to work on Lion and Mountain Lion.


Categorised as: Linux/OSX, Networking, OS X


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