AlmostVPN is een Preference Panel voor het Mac OS X-platform waarmee je verschillende ssh-tunnels in kan stellen. Het gebruikt launchd voor het aansturen van deze ssh-tunnels en kan tunnel definities importeren van de programma's SSH Tunnel Manager en SSHKeychain. Met AlmostVPN kan je op een eenvoudige manier bijvoorbeeld remote volumes aankoppelen via een SSH tunnel. Versie 0.9.8 is beschikbaar met de volgende aanpassingen:
What is New:
It looks like quite a few AlmostVPN customers are employing Dynamic DNS services to access they SSH servers. As of 0.9.8, AlmostVPN will verify IP address for SSH server every time when profile gets started from Preference Pane
NOTE: if you start profile from Widget or Menu Bar, this verification WILL NOT HAPPEN. IP addressed resolved during LAST start via Preference Pane will be used.
AlmostVPN on Tiger now employes two more options:These two options provide better way to deal with servers which will shutdown inactive connections. At the same time, AlmostVPN on Panther now use "KeepAlive" option, which is equivalent to "TCPKeepAlive" on Tiger.
- ServerAliveInterval=15
- ServerAliveCountMax=4
As of 0.9.8 it is AlmostVPN can cope with passwords which contain '$' sign.
What Was Fixed Since 0.9.7:
- Ticket #6. SSH session needs to employ TCPKeepAlive option
- Ticket #99. Need to be able to cope with dynamically assinged addresses (at least for ssh gateway)
- Ticket #100. Widget typo
- Ticket #101. AlmostVPN can not deal with passwords which contains '$'
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