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  1. Marko

    It does not work on 10.9.5 🙁 🙁

    No ALTQ support in kernel
    ALTQ related functions disabled
    /Users/marko/Desktop/tplink/pf.conf:2: reached end of file while parsing quoted string
    /Users/marko/Desktop/tplink/pf.conf:2: syntax error
    pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded

    tplink file:
    rdr pass on en0 inet proto udp from any to 255.255.255.255 port 29809 -> 192.168.0.13 port 29809

    pf.config file:
    rdr-anchor “forwarding”
    load anchor “forwarding” from “/Users/marko/Desktop/tplink/tplink”

    Any ideas? I double checked everything.
    Would love to get this working.

  2. carib.mendez

    Thanks Marko…the files required a carriage return at the end of each line. I’ll update the article and include sample files

  3. Matt

    I can’t get it to work…10.11.15

    No ALTQ support in kernel
    ALTQ related functions disabled
    pfctl: “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf”: No such file or directory
    pfctl: cannot open the main config file!: No such file or directory
    pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded

    I used your files and just added my info but it can’t even find the files on my desktop.

    Any ideas? I really don’t want to have to run boot camp…? ?

    • carib.mendez

      Matt, did you move the files to your desktop? By default they will have been downloaded to /Users/mattymatt/Downloads. Make sure to move both pf.conf and tplink to your desktop.

  4. Matt

    Yes I did. Both files on the desk top. First I just used yours but with my info. then when that did not work I created both from scratch. Again both time they were on the desk top.

    I am running El Capitan ver.10.11.5 and Java ver. 8 update 91 (build 1.8.0_91-b14)

    If that makes any difference.

    • carib.mendez

      hmmm…I really stumped. I verified that it does indeed work on El Cap 10.11.5 and JRE 8_91. Did you modify the line in the pf.conf to load the tplink configuration from your desktop /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/tplink and not /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/tplink/tplink ? Also verify that both files have a carriage return after the last line.

  5. Aaron

    Thanks for all of this. I have a few remarks

    @Matt
    I got the same error pfctl: “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf”: No such file or directory. All you need to do is to run the command in Terminal without double quotes
    sudo pfctl -f /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf -e
    and it works.

    But much more simple. Why not use the Web interface instead. Find out the IP address of your switch and point your browser to this address. By the way I have V2.0 of the switch. Maybe this is not available in earlier versions. I have set my switch to a static IP address. Make sure it does not conflict with your DHCP range. Alternatively you can do a reservation on your DHCP server to always get the same IP address when switch restarts. The Web Interface has exactly the same functionality as the Java application.

    • carib.mendez

      Aaron, Thanks for the heads up didn’t realize they had released an update to gives web functionality. Previous to this there was no web configuration on this model of switches. It would appear that this new firmware is for rev 2 switches only…so people running rev 1 would still need to use the Easy Smart Configuration Utility.

  6. Matt

    Thanks so much for trying to help me with this.

    Well you were correct I had tplink twice. I corrected it but still have the problem.

    Below are my files exactly as they appear. Carriage return confirmed after each line.

    pf:

    rdr-anchor “forwarding”
    load anchor “forwarding” from “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/tplink”

    tplink:

    rdr pass on en4 inet proto udp from any to 255.255.255.255 port 29809 -> 192.168.1.132 29809

    This is what I am typing in terminal to run the file:

    sudo pfctl -f “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf” -e

    This is the message I am getting now:

    pfctl: Use of -f option, could result in flushing of rules
    present in the main ruleset added by the system at startup.
    See /etc/pf.conf for further details.

    No ALTQ support in kernel
    ALTQ related functions disabled
    pfctl: “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf”: No such file or directory
    pfctl: cannot open the main config file!: No such file or directory
    pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded

    • carib.mendez

      Try Aaron’s suggestions. Instead of the command
      sudo pfctl -f “/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf” -e

      try instead

      sudo pfctl -f /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf -e
      without the quotes (thought with the quotes should work just fine

      If that doesn’t work try typing in sudo pfctl -f
      then drag your pf.conf into the terminal window and it will put the full path, then add the -e at the end.

  7. Matt

    Thanks Carib,

    I tried all versions suggested. below is result from last version. I guess its just not meant to be for me… : (

    Last login: Fri Jul 8 11:18:20 on ttys000
    Matthews-MacBook-Pro-Retina-15-Inch:~ mattymatt$ sudo pfctl – f/Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf.rtf -e
    pfctl: Use of -f option, could result in flushing of rules
    present in the main ruleset added by the system at startup.
    See /etc/pf.conf for further details.

    No ALTQ support in kernel
    ALTQ related functions disabled
    /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf.rtf:1: syntax error
    /Users/mattymatt/Desktop/pf.conf.rtf:7: syntax error
    pfctl: Syntax error in config file: pf rules not loaded
    Matthews-MacBook-Pro-Retina-15-Inch:~ mattymatt$

    What is ALTQ support? Could that have something to do with it?

  8. Don

    I’m getting a message about needing to update to a newer version of the java runtime, but am using the latest and greatest. Any thoughts?

  9. Richard Remington

    So I ran an nmap scan against the 192.168.0.1 IP address listed on the label on my switch (having changing my Mac laptop to a manual IP of 192.168.0.2) and it showed port 80 open, so I went to port 80 and the full Web UI is there. I logged in with admin:admin and changed the IP to one inside my regular network, reverted my laptop back to the regular network and I’m happy. I’ve two of these switches and now they’re both on my regular network and I can use the Web UI to manage them. It’s working well.

    • carib.mendez

      You are lucky that you have a revision 2 of the product that supports web access. Alas, v1 products do not and have not seen an firmware update yet from TP-Link that adds that support.

  10. Mike

    Great post! – Those steps also work with the 5 port version which doesn’t come with a web GUI option at all. I’ve scripted up your steps so I can easily call up the GUI on my Mac regardless of my IP (as I’m on DHCP), without having to modify the settings each time. Here it is below…

    #!/bin/bash
    # Where is the tplink smart utility located
    TPutil=”~/scripts/tplink/Easy-Smart-Configuration-Utility.jar”
    # Which java version do we want to use (ie specify location)
    TPjava=”/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java”
    # Be sure to specify which network interface you want to use here
    MYINTERFACE=”en0″
    # You shouldn’t need to change anything from here on…
    # Which temp files will we create (and then remove)
    TMPFILE=”/tmp/tplink.acl.tmp”
    TMPFILE2=”/tmp/tplink.pf.conf.tmp”
    # Extract IP address of my laptop and put into packet filter acl
    MYIP=`ifconfig $MYINTERFACE | egrep “inet [0-9\.]+ netmask” | awk ‘{print $2}’`
    echo “rdr pass on $MYINTERFACE inet proto udp from any to 255.255.255.255 port 29809 -> $MYIP port 29809” > $TMPFILE
    # Create packet filter config file
    echo ‘rdr-anchor “forwarding”‘ > $TMPFILE2
    echo ‘load anchor “forwarding” from “‘$TMPFILE'”‘ >> $TMPFILE2
    # Load in new packet filter config
    sudo pfctl -f $TMPFILE2 -e
    # Remove temp files
    rm -f $TMPFILE $TMPFILE2
    # Start up the tplink smart config utility
    $TPJava -jar $TPutil

  11. fred

    Hi just spent too much time on this…

    I just bought a second unit and it’s V2, so after struggling to get the configuration utility to work I read the comments and realized that I had a V2 unit and that a web server was finally available (it just took them a few years). However… After struggling to find the IP of my device on the router’s web page I looked again at the bottom of the device and it turns out some genius set a static IP by default… and that address turns out to be… 192.168.0.1 It’s a shame there’s no Nobel prize for networking he/she would surely deserve it!

    So in order to get this thing working you need to set your Mac to some static address in the range 192.168.0.[2-254] and connect the switch directly to your Mac, then you can go to 192.168.0.1 in your browser and configure the device (login and password are ‘admin’).

  12. carib.mendez

    Fred, sorry that you had so much trouble connecting. I’ve updated the article to reflect that this is for version 1 only. Luckily you have version two and can use the web interface.

  13. Jan

    Hello,

    I followed the instructions without success. I think it depends on my network configuration?

    Here is what I tried:

    echo “rdr pass on en0 inet proto udp from any to 255.255.255.255 port 29809 -> 192.168.178.15 port 29809” > /tmp/tplink.acl.tmp

    echo ‘rdr-anchor “forwarding”‘ > /tmp/tplink.pf.conf.tmp
    echo ‘load anchor “forwarding” from “‘/tmp/tplink.acl.tmp'”‘ >> /tmp/tplink.pf.conf.tmp

    pfctl -f /tmp/tplink.pf.conf.tmp -e

    But the configuration tool end up with a message “No switch exists in the local area network!”.

    My en0 ip is 192.168.178.15 and the TP-Link ip is 192.168.178.3.

    On my Windows VM the utility (EXE file) works correctly.

    Can you give me an advice for that problem?

    • carib.mendez

      That all looks correct. Two questions, are you running the pfctl command as sudo? Second try running sudo pfctl -f /tmp/tplink.pf.conf.tmp -e -v this will give more verbose output

      Verify that the last two lines say:
      rdr pass on en0 inet proto udp from any to 255.255.255.255 port 29809 -> 192.168.178.15 port 29809
      pf enabled

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