Changing From 127.13/16 Addresses To Something Else?

[DMFH]

Folks:

What an excellent product you have here, I registered within a few
days of discovering it, and I'm considering it for my corporate Mac
users since it's enough to provide secure remote access, without a
full VPN, which isn't needed for people who just need e-mail and some
other services. Have you considered a Windows and/or Linux version?

My question is about the OS/X version, a feature request.

Apple's AFP code in Leopard (and before) won't allow you to use any
address in the 127/8 address range to mount a share on, you get an
"Error -36" with a Finder error message that the "... share is local,
please use it locally" (how arrogant of OSX!) - I've tested this, and
filed a bug/feature request at Apple's ADC bug report facility about
this (and they actually respond!). I can manually create an SSH tunnel
as a work-around and get AFP to work remotely, but what I'd much
rather do is just change the address ranges you use from 127.13.x.x to
something else - this sounds as if it would be a simple patch or
configuration change somewhere in your product. Where might I find a
feature / way to change it? I'm quite willing to try something
experimental and take the risk it may not work. If mount_afp() in OSX
sees an address for the server that's not 127/8, it'll mount.

It'd be nice to have a feature for less network-savvy users to choose
an address block to use if desired instead of just the stock
127.13.x.x block.

/dmfh

[Leaping Bytes, LLC]

Hi,
It looks like AlmostVPN (1.6pre) does have a problem with AFP
mounts. I am not sure yet if it is just due to "127.13/16" address
space. I will investigate more and provide fix shortly. If
"127.13/16" address space does not work anymore (it most certainly
used to work on 10.4), then it needs to be replaced with something
which does work.

Andrei Tchijov
Leaping Bytes, LLC