I can't find NEProviderTargetTemplates.pkg

Clearly this installer package was removed in 10.12. I’m not sure how you’re supposed to get these templates currently. I’ll look into that. For the moment, I recommend you grab the package from a 10.11 install.

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I’m not sure how you’re supposed to get these templates currently. I’ll look into that.

My conclusion is that there’s currently no way to get these templates )-: I’ve filed a bug about that (r. 28697094). For the moment your best option is to grab a copy of the SimpleTunnel sample code and clone things from there.

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Why apple do these things? it's really frustrating....

Folks keeping pinging me about this so I thought I’d post a follow-up. Two points:

• The underlying bug here (r. 28697094) is well on its way to being fixed. Alas, I can’t be more specific than that.

• It’s relatively easy to work around this: create your target from some other extension template and then change the necessary values to make it a Network Extension provider. For example, to create an iOS packet tunnel provider:

  1. Create the target from the Spotlight Index Extension target

  2. Remove

     IndexRequestHandler.{swift,h,m}

  3. Add a new source file with your class that subclasses NEPacketTunnelProvider

  4. Edit the

     NSExtension

     dictionary in the

     Info.plist

     to make this a packet tunnel provider; this involves two substeps:

     • Set

       NSExtensionPointIdentifier

       to

       com.apple.networkextension.packet-tunnel

       (you can get values for other providers from the documentation, or from the SimpleTunnel sample code)

     • In

       NSExtensionPrincipalClass

       , replace

       IndexRequestHandler

       with the name of your class from step 3

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Earlier I wrote:

The underlying bug here (r. 28697094) is well on its way to being fixed. Alas, I can’t be more specific than that.

Xcode 9 includes a new Network Extension template that you can use to create various types of Network Extension providers. Yay! Please try it out, filing bugs if you encounter any problems.

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