PPTP-GUI for Mac OS X

The PPTP (Point-to-point tunneling protocol) was made by a company called Microsoft to connect to a foreign network (Virtual Private Network). Nowadays it is used by some ADSL ISPs around the world and some brave companies that refuse to use something more secure like IPSec.

This application is actually a user interface frontend for C. Scott Ananian's pptp-linux, which was ported to FreeBSD (and thus to Darwin) by John Polstra.

Requirements

Mac OS X 10.0.x or later
Note that Mac OS X 10.1 requires the newest version of pptp-gui (2.1)
There is no version for Mac OS 9.2 or earlier! And I don't plan to write any.

How to install

(There are step-by-step instructions included on the disk image for using pptp-gui for ADSL.)
GUI-version:

Properly configure your TCP/IP-settings in the System Preferences. Make sure the modem port is enabled and on the top of the list in the advanced section.
Download the package
Doubleclick the file you just downloaded
Now a window with some files opens. Read the text files and copy the file "pptp-gui" to any place on your hard disk (Applications would be fine).
Open the application
Set your login, password and server (the default server works for Alcatel ADSL-ANTs)
Open the log (Cmd-L or Window -> Show Log) if you want to see the output of the connection attempt
Press the Connect-button
Have fun!