Viscosity Universal Binary

Version: 0.6 || Release Date: 2008-08-12 || License: Shareware (Free Beta)

Viscosity is an OpenVPN client for Mac, providing a rich Cocoa graphical user interface for creating, editing, and controlling VPN connections. Viscosity provides a complete OpenVPN solution for Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) and does not require any additional downloads or software.

Viscosity allows connections to be completely configured through a GUI, without any need to know how to use the command-line or OpenVPN's configuration file syntax. Advanced users still have full manual control over configuration options if desired.

As well as connection configuration, Viscosity also provides a global menu for quick connection/disconnection, as well as a details window containing connection information and traffic statistics.

Features include:
* Cocoa GUI
* Designed for Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
* Keychain integration
* Connection details (Client IP, Server IP, etc)
* Traffic statistics
* Multiple simultaneous connections
* Growl integration

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3 Opinions:

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guru, 2008-07-04 (score: -1)

"no other Mac-native OpenVPN clients abstract control to the same level as Viscosity does"

-> That is definitely not true! Take a look at Shimo, which supports multiple VPN protocols and makes OpenVPN connections easier than ever before!!!

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viscosity, 2008-06-29 (score: 1)

Thanks for your feedback aradke. While I disagree with you to some extent (no other Mac-native OpenVPN clients abstract control to the same level as Viscosity does), the wording on the website was highly ambiguous and could be misinterpreted. I have now updated it to better reflect Viscosity's operation and features.

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aradke, 2008-06-29

This statement from their site is blatantly false and leaves me with significant doubts regarding the developers of the software:

"Until now OpenVPN connections required familiarity with the command-line and Mac OS X's Unix underpinnings to be able to use on a Mac."