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Find VPN client IP address [message #113025] Wed, 30 April 2014 12:19 Go to next message
fishtech is currently offline  fishtech
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Hi,

How can a VPN client easily find their IP address on Mac OS X?

I can only find it in System log.

Thanks,

ft.
Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113046 is a reply to message #113025] Thu, 01 May 2014 07:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mlee (Kerio)
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Location: Sydney
How about ifconfig in terminal?

M.


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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113055 is a reply to message #113046] Thu, 01 May 2014 23:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishtech is currently offline  fishtech
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Hmmm... that's kinda cumbersome for a non-technical person.

Any chance it could simply be reported in the VPN app menu item somewhere?

Thanks,

ft.
Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113080 is a reply to message #113055] Mon, 05 May 2014 02:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mlee (Kerio)
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Open terminal and type "ifconfig" isn't that hard.

Not that I know that there is such a feature as yet. I'd success feature request.

M.


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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113087 is a reply to message #113080] Mon, 05 May 2014 10:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113090 is a reply to message #113087] Mon, 05 May 2014 14:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishtech is currently offline  fishtech
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Quote:
Open terminal and type "ifconfig" isn't that hard.


Sure, not hard if you're a tech.

But if you're a remote salesperson, somewhere on the road selling widgets, needing remote support, and you have never opened Terminal before, and you are getting directions from a remote tech over a cellphone, it is harder than it needs to be.

I have posted a request.

Thanks,

ft.

[Updated on: Mon, 05 May 2014 14:43]

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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113184 is a reply to message #113025] Thu, 08 May 2014 07:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
mlee (Kerio)
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Registered: October 2012
Location: Sydney
You have your point but I am not convinced that opening terminal and type "ifconfig" is hard.

Anyway, thanks for making the request.

M.


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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #113267 is a reply to message #113184] Thu, 08 May 2014 22:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
fishtech is currently offline  fishtech
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I wholeheartedly agree Terminal > ifconfig is not difficult if you know what you are doing.

However, it is hard if you are trying to explain it to your mother-in-law who has never opened Terminal before, talking over bad a cellphone connection, and you have to get her to find you the IP address allocated on connection to Kerio VPN out of a mess like this:

Last login: Thu May 8 16:08:49 on ttys000
You have new mail.
iMac1252:~ me$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
ether 10:ad:b1:b4:52:5f
inet6 fe80::12dd:b1ff:fea4:525f%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.0.158 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
media: autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control>)
status: active
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 8c:2d:aa:55:b6:37
inet6 fe80::8e2d:aaff:fe55:b637%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.65 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 2602:30a:c0da:4310:8e2d:aaff:fe55:b637 prefixlen 64 autoconf
inet6 2602:30a:c0da:4310:15b:5bd8:162d:697f prefixlen 64 autoconf temporary
media: autoselect
status: active
p2p0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2304
ether 0q:2d:ab:55:b6:37
media: autoselect
status: inactive
kvnet0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1400
ether 44:33:53:22:4f:53
inet 192.168.99.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.99.255
iMac1252:~ me$


Maybe, instead, over the poor cellphone connection, I could ask my mother-in-law to type:


ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | cut -d\ -f2


to just pull her IP addresses without the other stuff?

ft.

[Updated on: Thu, 08 May 2014 22:20]

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Re: Find VPN client IP address [message #116819 is a reply to message #113267] Fri, 17 October 2014 22:47 Go to previous message
fishtech is currently offline  fishtech
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Sorry to bring this back but needed yto know the IP address of a client.

This time the user was technical.

He could not believe he had to use terminal to get the remote IP address of his machine.

It would be great if you could put it somewhere on the VPN client app.

Thanks,

ft.
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