[zzarg]

In WinXP when I connect via PPTP to a VPN I have an option in the advanced TCP/IP set up to *not* use the default remote gateway.... this means that when I'm connected to a machine with limited outgoing connections I can still browser the web, access IM etc from my machine.

In Internet Connect I can set up the VPN Connection with no trouble at all and access the remote host, but it then tries to route all traffic through the remote machine.... with pretty disastrous results !

Is there a solution for the OSX Internet Connect that will let me work the same way.
I don't know if it matters, but I'm using an Airport Extreme connected machine, not wired ethernet

[larkost]

The GUI does not provide a way, but if you dig around for it, the GUI simply wraps a command line utility (pppd), and that utility does have the option to do that. Unsurprisingly MacOS X Hints has an article.

[zzarg]

{shudder} scary command line stuff ! I like GUIs ! While it seems to work it would be a real pain day-in-day-out to do this
Seems strange that such a sensible option as the 'defaultroute' isn't available via the GUI in OSX (which is, after all, one of the main reasons for using a Mac over other *nix variants !)
Maybe Tiger will have it.... but sadly by then it'll be too late... I'll have been driven back to my PC ! Spending $60 for a copy of DigiTunnel just to get the checkbox enabled seems like overkill.
Anyone know of an AppleScript (or similar) way to wrap the commands from the MacHints site and make it a one-click solution ?

[jaffle]

Tiger seems to have sorted this one out - you know have your checkbox!