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RE: Ip address of VPN
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RE: Ip address of VPN


  • Subject: RE: Ip address of VPN
  • From: Quinn <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:17:09 +0000

At 09:34 +0530 23/12/09, Vasavi Mahadev wrote:
I am not using built-in support for Cisco VPNs.

[...]

But the IP address for Cisco VPN client is same as that of Ethernet(en0).

Yeah, that's weird. That's not how things are meant to work. I suspect that it's Cisco code doing this, so it's not something that I can explain (I have a hard enough time explaining Apple's code :-). If you have any contacts at Cisco, you might want to ping them.


Regarding a workaround, have you tried looking at <x-man-page://3/getifaddrs>. It's simultaneously a better and worse way to get at the information you need. It's better because it's tied more closely to the TCP/IP stack, and hence it's hard to create an interface without it appearing it. Here's worse for pretty much the same reason (-:, in that it returns a very raw interpretation of what's going on. Also, unlike the dynamic store, it doesn't notify you when things change.

So, fire up your Cisco VPN and then call getifaddrs and see what it returns.

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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
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