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#PIA VPN MAC FIREWALL MAC OS X#

Port forwarding is only through the following gateways: CA Toronto, CA North York, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, Russia, Romania, and Israel.

The remote users must know the device name and the port number to successfully connect to it.

Port forwarding – Turning this on allows you to set up an application which allows remote users to connect to it.

Local port – This allows you to set a local port to send data through which is then redirected to the remote port.

Port 53 – This is the port used by DNS for requests.

Port 9201 – This is the port used for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) services on mobile devices.

Port 8080 – This is the alternative port to Port 80 for HTTP web services.

Port 1194 – This is the standard OpenVPN port.

Remote Port – This lets you choose the remote port to tunnel data through.

This makes it slower because of the extra overhead involved in error checking and resending of packets in the proper order. It provides error checking for packet order and loss and resends packets if necessary.

TCP – This is the Transfer Control Protocol and is good for high latency connections and those which cannot tolerate any loss.

It does not have to check for packet order or loss but can do a checksum if desired.

#PIA VPN MAC FIREWALL MAC OS X#

This is the default OpenVPN protocol for the PIA Mac OS X client and best for most users. UDP – This is the User Datagram Protocol which is used with low latency connections and that can tolerate some loss in packets.The check mark next to the icon also indicates that you are currently connected to the PIA network.Ĭonnection type – Their are two types of connections possible with the OpenVPN protocol over IP. Notice, “Disconnect” is the only choice that you have. The last image illustrates what the client looks like when you are connected to the Private Internet Access network. Clicking on any of the regions will connect you to that location. Selecting “Connect” will connect you to our last used location. The middle image shows that there are other locations that you can connect to by selecting “More”. This indicates that you are not currently connected. Notice, “Disconnect” has been greyed out but “Connect” and all the locations are selectable. Clicking on the icon will display a list of locations that you can connect to. It simply loads into the menu bar as an icon and looks like the image on the left below. The client does not have a graphical user interface. We will discus the advanced options later in this section. Once you have set these basic options, then click the “Save” button and the client will finish launching.