Application Packaging Standard

Last updated 18-Mar-2019

VPN Setup for Mac OS X

Tunnelblick is a free open source graphic user interface for OpenVPN on Mac OS X. It provides easy control of OpenVPN client and/or server connections.

Please follow these steps to establish VPN connection to the apsdemo.org network.

  1. Download the Tunnelblick client.

  2. Install Tunnelblick.

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  3. Get VPN configuration. A zip file with OpenVPN configuration, you have downloaded, contains all necessary parameters to access the apsdemo.org VPN.

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  4. Extract the configuration file.

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  5. Add the VPN configuration to Tunnelblick:

    • Rename the folder to have the .tblk extension.

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    • Double click on the .tblk bundle.

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    The configuration should now be registered in the Tunnelblick client.

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  6. Make sure DNS is enabled.

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  7. Test your connection.

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    If connection is successful, you should be able to ping dns.apsdemo.org by its domain name:

    $ ping dns.apsdemo.org
    PING dns.apsdemo.org (10.112.0.11): 56 data bytes
    64 bytes from 10.112.0.11: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=49.746 ms
    64 bytes from 10.112.0.11: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=48.582 ms
    64 bytes from 10.112.0.11: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=87.441 ms
    
  8. Test connection to the Operations Automation. Once you have a connection to the apsdemo.org network, you should be able to connect to the Odin Automation control panel:

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