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Since the U.S. government passed legislation allowing Internet service providers to sell their users’ browsing history, the web has exploded with conversations about how to protect yourself from your ISP’s surveillance. The best method is to use a VPN to protect your Internet traffic. A VPN makes it impossible for your ISP to spy on you by passing all your web traffic through an encrypted “tunnel,” hiding the contents of your web browsing session from view.
- Tunnelblick is a user-friendly and unobtrusive macOS application that enables you to take control over the OpenVPN client and server connections from within a simple and clean interface. Complete package to connect to a VPN server from your Mac. The Tunnelblick utility comes with all the necessary.
- Enable IPv6 (optional) By default, IPv6 is disabled for the VPN. If you want to use IPv6, open the Tunnelblick settings. To do this, click on the Tunnelblick icon in the icon bar at the top right and click on the VPN Details. In this window, select the currently imported profile on the left, switch to the Settings tab and uncheck Disable IPv6 unless the VPN server is accessed.
Using Tunnelblick - Tunnelblick Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software GUI for Mac OS X. Includes OpenVPN, OpenSSL, easy-rsa, and drivers. For example: the downloaded file for version 3.7.8 is named Tunnelblick3.7.8build5180.dmg) D.Double-click on the Tunnelblick icon (it looks like a tunnel) to begin installation Depending on your security settings, you will be asked to confirm your Mac password to proceed with the installation. File Locations - Tunnelblick Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software GUI for Mac OS X. Includes OpenVPN, OpenSSL, easy-rsa, and drivers.
Getting a VPN set up typically isn’t too challenging. You’ll need to sign up with a VPN provider first, and then follow their setup instructions. Most VPN providers supply their customers with custom VPN clients to connect to their network. This software ranges from inoffensive to non-functional, and it can be a point of frustration for users.
If you’re annoyed by your provider’s software, you probably don’t have to use it. Most providers also support OpenVPN, which is an open-source VPN application that runs through a separate software client. The best-knowing application to set up OpenVPN configurations on your Mac is Tunnelblick, and it’s excellent. Follow the steps below to set up OpenVPN configurations with Tunnelblick and ditch your VPN provider’s clunky client.
Set Up OpenVPN with Tunnelblick
To set up OpenVPN on your Mac, you’ll need to install Tunnelblick from the developer’s website and install the necessary OpenVPN configuration files from your VPN provider.
1. Download and install the most recent stable version of Tunnelblick from the developer’s website.
2. The first time you open Tunnelblick, you’ll see a message about requiring VPN configuration files. Click I have configuration files – you’ll get these from your VPN provider in the next steps.
3. The next window explains how to set up OpenVPN configuration files. Click OK.
4. The above-mentioned OpenVPN configuration files should be available from your VPN provider. You’ll likely received a ZIP archive containing a variety of files with the .ovpn extension. These files include all the data about your VPN services that Tunnelblick will need to get the connection functioning. To obtain these files, you might need to contact customer service, visit your VPN’s support pages, or do some Googling.
5. After you’ve downloaded the necessary OpenVPN files, open Tunnelblick’s configuration screen by clicking on its icon in the menu bar. Select VPN Details… from the drop down menu.
6. To add configuration files to Tunnelblick, drag and drop the .ovpn files from Finder into Tunnelblick’s left-side menu pane. Do not drag over any other file types, like .crt or .pem files.
7. Tick “Apply to All” and click “Only Me” in the next window.
8. The configurations will automatically be added to Tunnelblick’s menu and available for connection.
Connecting & Disconnecting from VPN Configurations
Now that we’ve set up OpenVPN configurations, we can connect to them from the same Tunnelblick menu.
1. To start a new VPN connection, click on the Tunnelblick menubar icon and click on a configuration.
2. Enter your username and password for your VPN provider and click OK.
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3. A small notification window will pop up in the upper-right showing your VPN connection status. Once the connection is complete, the notification’s text will turn green and the window will fade away.
4. The Tunnelblick icon will also animate while the connection processes. When Tunnelblick’s icon turns black instead of light grey, you’ve connected successfully.
5. To see your connection status and public IP address, click the Tunnelblick icon and look at the first line. To disconnect, click that same menu item labelled Disconnect All.
Sharing Credentials Across VPN Configurations
If your VPN provider has multiple exit nodes or configurations, you can set up Tunnelblick to use the same login credentials for all of them. This saves you constantly retyping your credentials, which can be long and hard to remember.
In testing, this process has proven a little buggy. If possible, set up sharing credentials immediately after you’ve installed your VPN configurations to avoid any potential issues.
1. Click on the Tunnelblick icon in the menu bar.
2. Select VPN Details… to open the configuration menu.
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3. In the configuration menu, click on the Settings tab. Then click the button labelled Advanced… to open the advanced configuration menu.
4. Under the VPN Credentials tab, tick the box next to All configurations use Common credentials. This will set all your VPN configurations to use the same username and password.
5. To save the username and password that the credentials will use, log in to a VPN connection that doesn’t already have saved credentials.
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6. Type in your username and password. Tick Save in Keychain under both the username and password to save your login information as common credentials.
7. After you log in, Tunnelblick will save those credentials and apply them to any other VPN connections you initiate.
Conclusion
Tunnelblick is a strong OpenVPN client for macOS that can handle multiple configurations at one time. It can also help improve security and ease of use if your VPN provider’s client is buggy or badly designed. Just get OpenVPN configuration files from your VPN provider and you’ll be good to go.
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If you have a VPN service provider,they are the best source for support.
- Your VPN service provider is the organization which gave you your configuration files, and perhaps a username and password, and to which you are probably paying a fee for VPN service.
- Tunnelblick is free software that many VPN service providers recommend or supply to their customers. We do not provide VPN service, just software.
- For a list of Mac-friendly VPN service providers, see Getting VPN Service.
If your VPN was set up by someone else,they are the best source for support.
If you set up your own VPN:
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- For information about Tunnelblick, see the Tunnelblick documentation.
- For information about OpenVPN or OpenVPN configurations, please use the OpenVPN resources below.
If you have a question about OpenVPN or a problem with OpenVPN, OpenVPN documentation and support is the best place to go:
If nothing else helps, the Tunnelblick Discussion Group is the best place to ask and answer questions about Tunnelblick.
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- Searching the discussion group is often the fastest way to find the solution to a problem — someone else may have already solved it!
- Before posting or replying to the Discussion Group, please read Before You Post.