I’m going to cover the third one here and its quite simple. Open terminal and create file with name of your vpn server in /etc/ppp/peers/
sudo touch /etc/ppp/peers/vpn.yourserver.com
If you get error, because the peers folder doesn’t exist, create it with mkdir /etc/ppp/peers command). Then edit this newly created file
sudo nano /etc/ppp/peers/vpn.yourserver.com
Copy paste and fill your details
plugin PPTP.ppp noauth remoteaddress "------vpn.yourserver.com------" user "------USERNAME------" password "------PASSWORD------" redialcount 1 redialtimer 5 idle 1800 # mru 1368 # mtu 1368 receive-all novj 0:0 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote refuse-eap refuse-pap refuse-chap-md5 hide-password mppe-stateless mppe-128 # require-mppe-128 looplocal nodetach ms-dns 8.8.8.8 usepeerdns # ipparam gwvpn defaultroute debug
And finally run pppd deamon
sudo pppd call vpn.yourserver.com
If you get PPTP error when reading socket : EOF just try run the command again, or comment out the the line with ms-dns 8.8.8.8
Alternatively you can create this file anywhere and run it as
sudo pppd file ~/Desktop/path-to-your-file/vpn.txt
Automator
You can automate it with Automator. Just drag and drop “Run AppleScript” from left pane. And insert following line:
do shell script "pppd call VPN.YOURSERVER.COM" with administrator privileges
Now save it to Application folder and you can run it as regular app. It will ask you for administrator privileges every time because it runs pppd command. When you run it you can see little gear in you status bar indicating VPN runs and get error prompt any time VPM fails.
KILL
sudo killall -HUP pppd
