Compiling Openvpn on OS/X Leopard

We use OpenVPN a lot. In the Tiger days I used Tunnelblick and everything was fine. But now in the Leopard days things are less than optimal. Tunnelblick crashes a lot, isn't updated in a while and gave al sorts of routing problems.

So I decided to compile the latest and greatest from source and start the VPN connection from the Terminal. Although I miss the visual indicator this works very well at the moment. Maybe I make a GUI frontend in the future but for now I can connect steady to our servers.

First install the tun and tap driver for Leopard; download latest version from: http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/ (at the moment of this article: latest)

Download and compile Comp-LZO from http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
( http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/lzo-2.02.tar.gz )

  tar zxvf lzo-2.02.tar.gz
  cd lzo-2.02
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

Download and compile OpenVPN from http://openvpn.net:
( http://openvpn.net/release/openvpn-2.1_rc7.tar.gz )

  tar zxvf openvpn-2.1_rc7.tar.gz
  cd openvpn-2.1_rc7
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install

Now I can start the connection:

sudo /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config technobabbel.conf &

Mon May 12 22:11:10 2008 OpenVPN 2.1_rc7 i386-apple-darwin9.2.2 [SSL] [LZO2] built on Apr 28 2008

Comments

[Irfan]

This link does not works?
http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/
( http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/lzo-2.02.tar.gz )

Also will this lead me to install OpenVPN SERVER on leopard?

Thanks!