# PPTP Client for MacOS 9?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 3, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092 "2001-10-03T01:23:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092/1 "2001-10-03T01:23:39Z")

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Anyone know of a good PPTP client for MacOS 9? I’ve been googling to no avail. ☹

Don’t care if it’s free or not-free, as long as it isn’t painfully expensive.

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092/2 "2001-10-03T07:12:09Z")

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[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/network/vpn/mac.html](http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/itsc/network/vpn/mac.html)

“You may consider to purchase a shareware called TunnelBuilder from Efficient Networks at [http://www.efficient.com/products/builder.html](http://www.efficient.com/products/builder.html) . There is no free PPTP client for Mac OS 9.”

I’m not a Mac guy, so i’m not sure how closely this resembles what you’re looking for…

googling is an art 🙂

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092/3 "2001-10-03T07:14:18Z")

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here’s another seemingly relevant link…

[http://www.macorchard.com/connect.html](http://www.macorchard.com/connect.html)

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**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092/4 "2001-10-03T07:17:28Z")

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and here’s exactly what you’re looking for…

[http://www.macslash.com/AskMacSlash/01/01/18/0239204.shtml](http://www.macslash.com/AskMacSlash/01/01/18/0239204.shtml)

"There are actually a lot of vpn clients for the mac. I have been using tunnelbuilder for about a year and I have had no problems with it at all. I am running mac os 9. Here are a couple:  
NAI  
V-One SmartGate  
Compatible Systems  
TimeStep  
NTS  
infoExpress  
AltaVista Tunnel "

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2001, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pptp-client-for-macos-9/85092/5 "2001-10-03T14:21:46Z")

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Thank you very much, folks.

This is, indeed, what I was looking for. I will check out TunnelBuilder immediately.