The procedures discussed in PART II are intended for those who are looking to route internet traffic from their VPN clients over the VPN and out to the internet via their server’s public internet connection at Macminicolo.Īlso, it should be mentioned that server administration (particularly at the command line level) can be tricky.
That’s right: you can jump straight from PART I to PART III. If you are simply looking to enable VPN service on your OS X Server for secure connection(s) between your server and client(s), you can skip PART II. He’s broken it down in a few parts so be sure to take the steps that are best for your situation: We asked Rusty Ross ( to help us put together a tutorial that will help Macminicolo customers setup their Mac minis to serve as VPNs. This doesn’t work well in a facility like Macminicolo where each Mac mini has a static WAN IP address. By default, El Capitan Server VPN will distribute IP addresses in the same range the Mac itself uses. This continued in Mountain Lion and Mavericks, Yosemite, and remains the case in El Capitan. When Apple released Lion, they changed the setup a bit.
This works great when you need an IP address in the US, or a secure internet connection on the road, or a number of other reasons. We have a lot of customers who use their Mac mini as a VPN server.
