BRIC VPN Setup Instructions
Change Your VPN Password
1. Go to https://fw-ats.bric.msu.edu/.
Note: You will receive a message about the certificate not being valid; go ahead and accept it.
2. Login with your VPN credentials. 3. Click on the “Change Password” link.
4. Complete the form as follows:
a. Old Password = whatever your password currently is goes here b. New Password = whatever you want your password to be c. Confirm new password = re-type the new password d. Click the “Change password” button
Install SSL VPN Software on Windows
1. Go to the open-source OpenVPN project website at http://openvpn.net/. 2. Click on the “Community Software” tab at the top.
3. Click on the “Downloads” link on the right.
4. Download the latest Windows Installer version of OpenVPN (2.1.1 as of this writing). 5. After the download completes, double-click on the installation file to start the installer. 6. On the “Welcome to the OpenVPN 2.1.1 Setup Wizard” screen, click the “Next” button. 7. On the “License Agreement” screen, click the “I Agree” button.
8. On the “Choose Components” screen, click the “Next” button. 9. On the “Choose Install Location” screen, click the “Install” button.
10. During installation you should receive a dialog “Hardware Installation” which requires you to click the “Continue Anyway” button to finish installing the OpenVPN client adapter.
11. In the “Installation Complete” screen, click the “Next” button. 12. On the “Completing the OpenVPN Setup Wizard” screen:
Update SSL VPN Configuration on Windows
1. Go to https://fw-ats.bric.msu.edu/.
2. Login with your VPN credentials. 3. Click on the “Remote Access” link.
4. In the “SSL VPN” area, find the line that starts with “Click here to download a ZIP archive
which…” and click on the “Download” button (be sure to save somewhere where you will
5. After this has been downloaded to your computer, double-click on it to open the file and expand it to a location of your choice. Once expanded, browse into the config folder so you are looking at a folder named <YOUR USERNAME> @fw1.bric.msu.edu. Change the folder name to simply <YOUR USERNAME> (example “SmithJ2”), removing the entire @fw1.bric.msu.edu ending.
Connect with OpenVPN
1. On your Desktop you should see an icon for the OpenVPN GUI, right-click on this icon and select to “Open” it from the menu choices.
2. Down in your system notification area, by the clock in the bottom-right, you should see the “OpenVPN GUI” client icon that resembles two computers with red screens and a globe, right-click on this icon.
3. Select “Connect.”
4. For the “Username” field, enter the BRIC VPN username that was created for you. 5. For the “Password” field, enter the BRIC VPN password that was created for you. 6. Click the “OK” button.
8. Once the connection is made, you should see an alert bubble.
9. Down in your system notification area, your “OpenVPN GUI” client icon should now resemble two computers with green screens and a globe.
10. When you need to disconnect, right-click the “OpenVPN GUI” client icon and select “Disconnect.”
NOTE: Special Windows 7 / Vista Instructions:
Please follow same procedure as Windows XP (above), however, for the VPN to be functional, you MUST be sure to perform the following additional steps.
1. Disconnect and then close the OpenVPN connection software completely (runs in the System Tray down in the bottom right-hand corner, 2 cascading little red monitor screens).
2. Open MY COMPUTER or WINDOWS EXPLORER and then browse to the following directory under Computer: “C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin”.
3. Right-click on the file named “openvpn-gui-1.0.3.exe”.
4. Click on the “Compatibility Tab” and then click “Run as Administrator” at the bottom of the window.
Install SSL VPN Software on Macintosh
1. Go to https://fw-ats.bric.msu.edu/.
Note: You will receive a message about the certificate not being valid; go ahead and accept it.
2. Login with your VPN credentials. 3. Click on the “Remote Access” link.
4. In the “SSL VPN” area, find the line that starts with “Click here to download a ZIP archive which contains all necessary files to set up SSL VPN on Linux, MacOS X, BSD or
Solaris” and click on the “Download” button.
5. After the file downloads to your computer, extract the ZIP file.
6. Now you will need an OpenVPN client program. The currently recommended one is “Viscosity OpenVPN Client for Mac”, which can be downloaded from
http://www.viscosityvpn.com/. 7. Install Viscosity.
9. On the “Connections” tab, click on the “+” icon. 10. Select “Import Connection.”
11. Point this at the “.ovpn” file in the set that were extracted from the ZIP file you downloaded.
12. With the connection selected, click on the Edit button.
13. Click on the “Networking” tab, click the “+” button in the “Routing” area. a. For Route/IP enter “192.168.192.0”, no quotes.
b. For Mask enter “255.255.255.0”, no quotes. c. For Gateway enter “vpn_gateway”, no quotes d. Click the Add button.
14. Click on the “Networking” tab again, click the “+” button in the “Routing” area. a. For Route/IP enter “172.16.16.0”, no quotes.
b. For Mask enter “255.255.255.0”, no quotes. c. For Gateway enter “vpn_gateway”, no quotes. d. Click the Add button.
e. On the “Advanced” tab, insert the text “—proto tcp-client”, no quotes, at the top of the list of commands.
15. Click the Save button.
16. You should now be able to connect to the SSL VPN.
