The issue here is that ALL traffic, even your Internet traffic, will be routed through the tunnel. This is going to be a function of the VPN termination device as well as the firewall configuration at the remote site. It will also break everything else, unless the network on the other side of the PPTP tunnel can also service your Internet traffic. ![]() This will gain you access to hosts on the other side of the VPN tunnel. This means that when the PPTP tunnel is up, traffic will flow through it before other network connections. In System Preferences > Network, perform “Set Service Order” (the drop down gear icon), and move the PPTP connection to the top of the list. The root issue is that, by default, OS X has no reason to send traffic across the VPN tunnel. You can still connect to the Internet and LAN hosts. When successfully making a PPTP connection to a remote VPN server with the built-in Mac OS X client, you find that you can’t connect to hosts on the other side of the VPN tunnel. Read all about PPTP’s Apple death here, and thanks to for letting me know about it. ![]() ![]() Apple has even pulled PPTP support from macOS Sierra. ![]() Don’t use PPTP to create a VPN to anything you care about. Before you read this post, understand that PPTP is insecure.
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