Questions tagged [openvpn]
OpenVPN is a free and open source software SSL VPN solution. It allows secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections with routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities.
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Router based VPN through single Ethernet port or easy on/off
I've recently moved out of the USA. Before my move I signed up for a VPN service.
I've been searching for a way to enable network-level VPN for all my devices through my router. It seem easy enough ...
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openvpn with ubuntu server 12.04
ERROR: Linux route delete command failed: could not execute external program
When command: sudo openvpn server.conf
Would anyone have a solution to this problem?
My server.conf folder:
serveur TCP/...
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Error to install openvpn on debian
I'm on Debian 7 and I had an error to install openvpn:
aurelien@ns22895:~$ sudo apt-get install openvpn
[sudo] password for aurelien:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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Unable to transmit stream through OpenVPN tunnel
We are trying to transmit a video-stream via netcat from a OpenVPN server to a client.
The server is a Raspberry Pi with Pidora running on it. The client is a Notebook with Ubuntu 12.04 and has a ...
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how do I setup my D-link DSR250n to use openvpn server
My aim is to make my Iphone connect remotely (and securely) to my home network and get from the DHCP (the d-link router) IP on the same subnet.
This is because I have an client app that broadcasts on ...
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Don't let Vuze use a VPN
I don't download anything illegal with Vuze (a bittorrent client) and have no need to use my VPN (which is set up on my private VPS, using OpenVPN on both the server and client) on it. How do I force ...
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DNS search suffix not working anymore on Mac osx
DNS resolution just has stopped working when connecting to our corporate VPN via openvpn using tunnelblick.
When I connect to the vpn the following (examplified) DNS settings are set:
james@macbook:~...
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Route Internet from eth0 to openvpn to eth1
I need to route all traffic coming and going from/to eth0 through openVPN before I send/receive it to/from eth1, this is a virtual machine Debian, you can call it a virtual router.
The idea is to put ...
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OS X OpenVPN — connect via VPN only to one IP
I have an OpenVPN connection and I want to connect via this connection only to one IP, and route all other traffic via usual network connection. How should I do it?
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VPN equivalent to SSH port forwarding?
I have an application on my remote server, it can only be accessed through localhost:3000 (not accessible from internet)
When I SSH into my remote server using putty with a tunnel L"*:3000" localhost:...
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Connect OpenVPN client through Tor's SOCKS port (Linux)
OpenVPN has the option to connect through a socks proxy.
Tor, as you may know, provides a SOCKS proxy (listening on localhost) to anonymize the apps/traffic using it.
I would like to connect my ...
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OpenVPN + Squid or another way of blocking advertisements/websites?
I have a personal VPN that I use on my tablet for public wifi protection.
Adblock+ is limited on android in that you need to set up a proxy for it to work, and this isn't ideal. Before I started ...
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OpenVpn and SSH tunneling
first of all I'm a linux newbie and just rent my vps few days ago. I'm using this vps for ssh tunneling and web server (apache, php, etc).
Today I want to install openvpn but I'm bit confused that if ...
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Split tunnel routing a specific port over OpenVPN on Ubuntu Server 12.04
So I know there is another question on here that I used as a guide as it was super helpful! (Setup routing and iptables for new VPN connection to redirect **only** ports 80 and 443) Only my goal is a ...
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OpenVPN doesn't tunnel
I have a openvpn server which listens port 443 but it doesn't seem to tunnel my connections.
I run the client in a network that blocks FTP connections, it says it is connected to my server but in ...
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Routing in 10.8 Server - WiFI clients over VPN - Ethernet Clients not over VPN
I'm not sure I have the right hardware for this, but....
I have a Mac Mini i7 Server with a built-in ethernet (en0) and a thunderbolt ethernet (en1) and the built in airport.
I would like to be able ...
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How do I stop OpenVPN from using every interface on Ubuntu?
I've previously dealt with PPTP, which would give me the PPP0 interface that I could bind services to. However, OpenVPN covers all interfaces.
How can I make it only work on a single interface, thus ...
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Why can't I connect to a computer over an OpenVPN connection?
A network topology diagram is here:
I am able to establish a tunneling connection over OpenVPN from the PC to the OpenVPN server (icon is green). When I try to ping the Server, however, I get no ...
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OpenVPN overrides gateways
I have problem with OpenVPN on Linux, because it overrides my gateways, so all network traffic goes through VPN tunnel. I want to push through tunnel only traffic from specific subnet. My routes ...
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Own VPN masking IP
I have got own VPN running on OpenVPN. I want to browse internet anonymously via this VPN.
Examples: Steganos VPN or CyberGhostVPN
These applications automatically transfers everything through VPN. ...
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TV stream and VPN
I'm trying to see a Spanish TV channel by Internet from Germany, but nor with a Spanish proxy and neither through VPN can I see this channel. I work with Ubuntu 12.10 and
This live TV channel can be ...
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Packets marked by iptables only sent to the correct routing table sometimes
I am trying to route packets generated by a specific user out over a VPN. I have this configuration:
$ sudo iptables -S -t nat
-P PREROUTING ACCEPT
-P OUTPUT ACCEPT
-P POSTROUTING ACCEPT
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Setting default route for tun1: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
I am currently trying to route all incoming and outgoing network traffic to/from applications listening on an OpenVPN tunnel tun1 through said tunnel.
Here are my devices: tun0 is an OpenVPN server ...
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Unable to connect to OpenVPN server
I'm trying to get a working setup of OpenVPN on my VM and authenticate into it from a client.
I'm not sure but it looks to me like it's socket related, as it's not set to LISTEN, and localhost seems ...
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Running forward proxy over openvpn
Where I live, there is quite a bit of censorship on the internet, and so I hope to be able to run a proxy on my home server which passes all my internet traffic through an openvpn tunnel, such that I ...
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How can I use iptables to forward all traffic through an interface based in gid?
I'm on Debian 12 bookworm
I'm trying to forward all traffic from (and to) users in the group watchers through interface tun9 and prevent them from using enp2s0.
I've set up a tunnel using openvpn with ...
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Openvpn connect to server's lan
Could somebody help me because I do not understand what's happening?
I setupped openvpn server on windows 10 successfully and everything is alright with it. I can ping computers on server side lan ...
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How do I configure an Advanced Tomato router as a PIVPN OpenVPN client?
I have a PIVPN OpenVPN server in one fixed location. In another location, I have a Netgear R6400 wifi router with Advanced Tomato installed which I would like to be an OpenVPN client. This would ...
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OpenVPN can't open (Kali)
I'm setting up an OpenVPN server on Kali. When the service is started, this error occurs:
Job for [email protected] failed because the control process exited with error code. See "...
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How can I set up OpenVPN on a Windows Server to allow clients to authenticate against Active Directory and access LAN
I have setup OpenVPN and my test client is able to ping the OpenVPN Server and vice-versa.
However, I am unable to connect to (or ping) any other device on the local network.
Ultimately, I would like ...
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OpenVPN through Tunnelblick - "Unrouteable TLS received" connecting to Riseup VPN
I'm trying to connect to RiseupVPN on my Macbook Pro M2 running macOS 14.1 Sonoma. I downloaded the branded BitmaskVPN client from them, and with 2 nondescript errors in the installation, I launched ...
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What does the OpenVPN 'auth' directive do?
What does the 'auth' directive do in an OpenVPN config file?
I am using a PKI system with my OpenVPN setup, as detailed here, and i have got everything working OK (I.E Client connects to server). ...
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OpenVPN Tunnel Through IP-Restricted Modems
I have an OpenVPN server running on an untangle/ARISTA device (A). It has a site-to-site connection with another untangle/ARISTA device (B). Also connected to that (B) is an IP-restricted modem (B1). ...
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OpenVPN with subnets and other permission for each of them
Is it possible to configure openVPN network in topology subnet to split network for subnets and add other behavior for each subnets regarding to possibility to communicate for each clients e.g. in ...
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OpenVPN Site to Side tunel with specific client
I have two networks.
First network: 192.168.10.0/24 (router TP-LINK [192.168.10.10] and RPI [192.168.10.17])
Secound network: 192.168.15.0/24 (only one RPI [192.168.15.10])
I would like site-to-site ...
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OpenVPN traffic through TLS-enabled TCP connection
I have to obfuscate OpenVPN traffic. So I created a TLS-enabled TCP tunnel with socat, and I want to pass OpenVPN traffic through this tunnel.
Server:
sudo socat openssl-listen:443,cert=/home/ubuntu/...
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How to troubleshoot OpenVPN connection fail?
I'm using Fedora 38. I set up OpenVPN on AWS. I downloaded the OpenVPN client cert. When I try to connect it fails.
I'm not sure how to move forward with diagnosing the problem.
Basically, I try (as ...
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Networking: NAT two interfaces together on Windows
I have the following setup:
Openvpn client (Linux) (Openvpn IP 192.168.99.4)
Openvpn client (Windows) (Openvpn IP 192.168.99.2)
Openvpn server (Linux) (Openvpn IP 192.168.99.1)
Now, both clients ...
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KDE Connect not connecting over OpenVPN
I am trying to get KDE Connect to work through my OpenVPN server I'm hosting at home, but I'm having a really weird problem. I'm running it in TUN mode which means broadcast packets won't work, which ...
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"SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received" when connecting vpn
I followed this tutorial : https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenVPN
Then I followed this tutorial : https://gist.github.com/gangsta/679e224900003f51ec184b7b8e56968b
This is the conf file :
#Template ...
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OpenVPN server not routing to its own LAN (Windows)
I'm trying to enable communication between local LAN of existing oVPN server and remote networks.
Both remote and local devices are communicating with PC (this was working for years) but they cannot ...
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OpenVPN don't route a specific IP address
Would like to prevent a specific subnet (say 200.*.*.*) from routing. Don't have access to the OpenVPN server config, can modify only the client-side config. How can it be done?
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OpenVPN works with version 2.3.8 but not with openvpn 2.6.0
I have tried two different versions of OpenVPN
Version 2.3.8
OpenVPN 2.3.8 i686-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [IPv6] built on Oct 30 2018
library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2l 25 May 2017, LZO 2.09
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openvpn adds wrong route rule
I setup an openvpn server. And I have one client machine. It has two interfaces
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| OpenVPN client |
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Disabling IPv6 connectivity only for specific Wi-Fi network (Windows 10)
Today, I've successfully set up a home VPN router with OpenWrt and OpenVPN.
Since my VPN provider only supports IPv4 connections, I don't want network traffic to leak out and I've disabled IPv6 by ...
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Access remote network devices through OpenVPN
I'm attempting to use a VPN to access remote network devices, while blocking off those devices from the internet. I've set the firewall (on a Synology NAS) to allow accessing those ports from a local ...
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Pinging server from VPN tunnel showing `Request timeout for icmp_seq`
I am successfully connected to a VPN tunnel to a router. I am trying to ping a server on this LAN with ping 192.168.1.113. This is returning:
PING 192.168.1.113 (192.168.1.113): 56 data bytes
Request ...
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How to make OpenVPN connection unstuck from MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1668905555,TCP_CONNECT?
I use OpenVPN UDP over SOCKS5 proxy.
most of the time it works, but sometimes it gets stuck in this state when I'm not using PC:
Sun Nov 20 01:22:35 2022 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536-&...
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Routing Traffic from OpenVPN Server -> Local Network -> OpenVPN Client
So I have a PFsense box running on my home network. I set up PIA as the a VPN client using this tutorial found here as well as a helpdesk article from PIA themselves. After getting that all setup I ...
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route openvpn server traffic through wireguard client
I have currently set up two vpn servers. one is a wireguard server and one is an openvpn server. I can successfully connect to internet through both VPN servers independently. But what I want to do is ...
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