Viscosity OpenVPN MAC Address
July 14, 2011 2 Comments
Here’s how you can make Viscosity set the MAC address of your TUN/TAP device prior to establishing a connection. Under the Advanced tab of your connection definition, simply add the following under “Extra OpenVPN configuration commands …”
lladdr 00:ff:12:34:56:78
Example:
Viscosity uses tuntaposx internally and I found this thread on the tuntaposx-users mailing list where the devs explain why they chose not to use the 00:FF paradigm like under Windows. IMHO, it’s very helpful for administrators to be able to distinguish between local MAC addresses and VPN MAC addresses (i.e. like in the dhcpd.conf file).
I hope this will save some time for future users of Viscosity who have the same problem.
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Is the viscosity app for mac only? is there a similar software for non-mac users? I mean, for windows. I too wanna set my tuntap mac address with openvpn. thanks!
No, they have recently released Viscosity on Windows! Check out http://www.thesparklabs.com/viscosity/ for more!