Using AppleTV 2 with a VPN

Hey,
I have seen lots of discussion on whether you can setup a VPN on an AppleTV 2. The short answer in my experience is no. However you can setup a VPN on an attached MacMini for example and then share its internet connection with the AppleTV. I did this by purchasing an Apple Ethernet/USB adapter and used that to create a second physical Ethernet port. I then purchased a VPN service and configured it using the built in client found in the networks panel of Systems Prefs of the MacMini. Once that is working you simply go into the sharing panel and turn on internet sharing and share the VPN with the USB Ethernet port. Note you need to make sure that in the VPN configuration step that you click the "Send all Traffic Over the VPN Connection" option on the "advanced tab".
You can also avoid the extra cost of the Ethernet/USB adapter and setup the VPN over Airport Wireless and then share the VPN with the single Macmini Ethernet port into which you plug the AppleTV. I didn't do this because I also use the Mac Mini to provide access to my RAID over my GigE network and I needed the port. The Apple Ethernet Adapter is not GigE Capable...but neither is the AppleTV...so no loss.
If all you want to do access selected sites like Netflix, then Overplay.net has an interesting feature called SmartDNS which allows access to a number of selected sites by simply setting the Apple TV DNS server address to their magic address. This doesn't create a VPN per se but it will give the same effect for the limited sites listed. I configured the Networks Settings of AppleTV 2 in Manual mode where I simply changed just the DNS server address to the one they provided. I found this gave better performance presumably because I was not stressing the MacMini with the VPN overhead.
Note these solution are mutually exclusive...the VPN solution covers all the bases while the SmartDNS does just a few key sites. You would not use both together at the same time.
Anyway.....I spent alot of time trying to get this working and I hope it helps somone.
G

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