On completion of the above steps, the PIA Mac client was able to connect to their gateway successfully. This executable is listed in /private/tmp folder and named pia_openvn. Click: + icon within the Firewall dialog box to add the PIA OpenVPN program to the whitelist.Choose: Security and Privacy followed by Firewall on the tab-bar.Open: System Preferences (Cmd+Space and Type: System Preferences).I could implement the fix by following the below steps: The last option of adding PIA OpenVPN executable to the whitelisted applications in the Firewall settings made sense. Therefore, disabling OS firewall was not an acceptable choice. It did not make sense lowering system security so as to connect to the VPN tunnel. I do not prefer using a TCP connection with the VPN tunnel as the three way handshake would slow down my connectivity. Whitelist PIA executable in the Firewall settings.Configuring PIA client to use TCP on behalf of UDP.Right-Click the Application icon within your system Tray, there you will see an option to download vX.X. Within the Application Settings Menu (a green arrow will appear on top of the three horizontal dots located at the top right of the application connect menu. ![]() The PIA blog post by dvh listed three alternatives to fix the problem: Directly on the Application Connect Menu (Below the connect Power Button 2. But, when attempting to connect to one of their US VPN Tunnel Gateway, the connection did not go through and seamed frozen in the ‘connecting’ phase.įew weeks zipped by the time I came across a solution listed at the PIA Discussion Forum. I downloaded the Mac OS X VPN client from the Client Support area of the PIA website and installed it successfully. ![]() Configuring OpenVPN to connect to PIA in my Ubuntu box was easy.įew months ago, I switched over to a Macbook Pro. Setting up the PIA client on Windows was a breeze. I have been using PIA as a VPN provider for some time now and have no complaints about the access speed.
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