Route Nowhere Mac OS

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November 05, 2019

I often use VPN to connect to either my home or workplace and I guess that’s a pretty common thing to do. When you define a VPN connection using MacOS’ network settings you can tell it to either:

  • just route traffic the way the VPN is configured to route
  • route everything through the VPN

If you want something in between that, then the GUI wont help you. However, if you use PPP (which is the default) then there is a nifty hook you can use: /etc/ppp/ip-up.

The output of the netstat command on Mac OS X is very similar to the output you are used to from Linux. The option “-r” tell netstat to show the routing table and the “-n” option as with the “route” command avoids DNS resolution. The netstat command is used to show more then just the routing table and is also available on Linux. For Mac OS, alternatively, you can install BackgroundMusic which also allows you to control each Audio Application's output volume (which Windows 10 and Linux can do but MacOS cannot do on its own): After that, in PyAudio or SoundDevice, you can see additional devices: BackgroundMusic devices are dual input-output devices, i.e., they can be. I need to retrieve the default gateway on a Mac machine. I know that in Linux route -n will give an output from which I can easily retrieve this information. However this is not working in Mac OSX(Snow Leopard). I also tried netstat -nr grep 'default', but I was hoping for a cleaner output like that produced by route -n in Linux/Unix.

This executable file will be called with some predefined arguments every time the VPN connects and allow you to setup some routing. Fx:

The file can be created if not already there, just remember to make it executable with sudo chmod +x /etc/ppp/ip-up

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The above script will route all within 192.168.1.0/24 (classic local network subnet) to the local interface and rest goes over the VPN. It will be handy if you just want to be able to connect to your local area network while connecting to the office VPN.

The arguments above and the rest of them is:

ArgumentDescriptionExample value
$1The VPN interfaceppp0
$2unknown
$3unknown0
$4Your IP on VPN network10.0.13.37
$5IP of VPN gateway10.0.13.1
$6IP of your local network gateway192.168.1.1

I’ve been trying to find some good resources for the arguments given to /etc/ppp/ip-up, but no luck. Found the best description here https://superuser.com/questions/4904/how-to-selectively-route-network-traffic-through-vpn-on-mac-os-x-leopard

If you have more than one VPN connection that you use often, then the above script could come to short. To overcome this we can just switch on fx the IP of the VPN gateway like this:

With this in place it:

  • give me access to home network, when on remote VPN.
  • it also skips the “home” network part, when using the VPN on the go.
  • lastly it allows me to route stuff to my home network when using my Home VPN.

This was a lot of messy stuff just for some simple routing, but it gets the job done. And networking is messy, just ask the president:

Written by Emil Ingerslev who lives and works in Aarhus, Denmark.You should follow him on Twitter

Apple Maps has a long history of trials and tribulation prior to its ultimate triumph. Apple has reached the inflection point in building its map data, and has shifted to aiming for feature parity against its rivals. The one feature that places Apple's offering separate from the rest is its privacy focus for users and the transparency behind how data is or isn't collected.

● Turn by turn navigation
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