OS 9 VPN Software?

[flecom]

Does anyone know of any OS 9 VPN software that can actually be found anywhere? anything PPTP, IPSec, Cisco?

I have been trying to track down any VPN software that will run in OS8/9 since I would like to use WiFi on my powerbook but since OS9 won't use anything newer than WEP I figure I can just have an open access point that only goes to a VPN with no other way out than establishing the VPN connection

 

[Cory5412]

As far as I know, any VPN that'll run on system 7/8/9 is basically going to be considered insecure.

Is this as a way to ensure that information is transmitted securely, or simply a way to create an isolated network for wifi clients that need VPN in order to do anything meaningful on the main network?

One possibility is to get a wifi access point that'll carry AppleTalk, and simply not route IP to that network segment, especially if this is primarily for use with appletalk file servers.

Another possibility is to not use DHCP on the open wireless segment which may still be insecure, but might at least slow people down.

At this point, my strategy has just been not to use an old/open wireless, even though it could benefit both system 7/8/9 and some Windows machines I'd like to use.

There probably is some software, here's a Cisco "5000" VPN, for example: https://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/vpn/docs/macintosh.html

Not sure if this would require that you have cisco hardware, though, or how much of it.

One name I've seen online is TunnelBuilder, not sure what it'll connect to, though.

 

[Cory5412]

Some documentation on tunnel builder in a particular academic environment. http://www.umassd.edu/media/umassdartmouth/cits/pdfs/vpn/configuringvpnos9.pdf

It looks like you can use a PPTP server with it, but I don't see any mention of letting the PPTP server automatically configure the connection.

 

[flecom]

the idea is I can have an "insecure" wireless, like WEP or just open going into a VPN concentrator of some kind, to allow old clients access to the rest of the network/internet via a VPN (to encrypt traffic over the open/WEP wifi and do authentication)

while PPTP is considered insecure (especially Microsoft's VERY broken implementation) it's a LOT more secure than WEP, and if you use a really long password (lots of entropy) it's decently secure

I have found reference to the Cisco 5k VPN client, but can't find it anywhere, same with TunnelBuilder, found references, but nowhere I can actually download the software... companies involved were no help either (all their old software is unsupported)

 

[mrpippy]

You can download the eval version of tunnel builder from tunnelbuildereval.bin, and the Internet Archive has the manual at TunnelBuilder 5.0.1 for Mac Users Guide

(I'm gonna upload it to the garden also)

Haven't tried it. Requires OT but otherwise works back to an '030 (although they highly recommend OT 1.3 which is limited to OS 8.1)