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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Why are OpenVPN clients getting IPv6 address non-randomly?
My OpenVPN IPv6 clients are getting assigned addresses sequentially from 1000. For example, client 1 gets: 2006:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1000 and client 2 gets 1001 and so on. Also, they keep getting the same ...
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Turn SOCKS to VPN using OpenVPN
I'm on Windows 10 and I have a local SOCKS connection (Psiphon 3) and I want to share this connection via Wifi Hotspot.
I know how to share an OpenVPN connection via wifi hotspot but I don't know how ...
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Prohibit non-LAN traffic from VPN interface
We have a machine running an openVPN client for the sole purpose of being able to SSH to the client while it is connected to a remote network. The VPN is working mostly correctly, but it is routing ...
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Client side ip6 address shows up as ip4:port address on firewall
I setup access to my family's home server over VPN, restricted by ip address. Sometimes a family member would have an ip6 address (they Google "ip") from their location. My firewall (pfsense) accepts ...
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OpenWRT set Policy-based routing with multiple interfaces
I have an OpenWRT router. On it, I had set up a couple VPN interfaces. I have a tinc VPN that links all my remote networks together; an OpenVPN tunnel to an overseas location.
Currently, I already ...
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TeamViewer bypass OpenVPN
I have computer with installed TeamViewer and connected to the VPN.
Since this client redirects traffic through its servers and the VPN server is located in CN, the data transfer rate is very small.
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OpenVPN with VRRP on tap device?
I'm trying to set up HA cluster with OpenVPN tunnel however there's one small problem - whereas VRRP on LAN interface is not a problem, I struggle with VRRP on tap device.
keepalived fails to start ...
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NetworkManager - OpenVPN connects, but no access to the Internet
This happens only with this exact OpenVPN connection, only on this machine and only with NetworkManager. Regardless whether i connect to the VPN via command-line or NetworkManager itself. If i ...
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Chromebook stopped routing OpenVPN
I have an OpenVPN server (on pfSense) running, to which I connect with my Chromebook to access certain private resources. This was working great. However, since a couple of days, it stopped working as ...
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OpenVPN client error : Failed to configure TLS context
I got this errors when trying to start my openvpn client:
Tue Nov 28 15:28:03 2017 us=942328 OpenVPN 2.3.14 arm-poky-linux-gnueabi [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] [MH] [IPv6] built on Sep 6 2017
Tue Nov 28 15:...
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Openvpn on aws not able to connect subnet
I have setup openvpn server on ubuntu 16.04 on AWS .. I am able to connect it from my localhost machine. Then I can access the openvpn server by its private ip.. But not able to connect other ec2's in ...
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What does push "route 0.0.0.0" do in the OpenVPN server.conf file?
I am wondering what is the role of push "route 0.0.0.0" in /etc/openvpn/server.conf. In fact, I had a push "route 0.0.0.0 " line (notice the space at the end) in my server.conf file, and I had to ...
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How to route VPN traffic trough a different interface in linux
I have a Debian 9 LXC container with two NIC (eth0 and eth1) in a LAN, hosting a web server listening on eth0. I would like to connect the container to a VPN to retrieve files from some internet ...
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VPN to home network without opening port
I have several devices running on a network at home. I'd like to be able to access them remotely, specifically OpenHAB and OctoPrint webpages, without exposing any ports on my network or dealing with ...
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OpenVPN connecting but no internet on clients
My OpenVPN isn't working properly today. Here is my network scheme:
Clients ----> VPS ----> Internet
It used to work well but today my clients are not able to connect to internet over VPN and I don'...
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How to cross-compile OpenVPN to an old kernel
I'm trying to build the VPN client for my NAS which is an ARMv5 CPU with Linux 2.6:
Linux OSS117 2.6.22.18 #15 Wed May 25 15:23:11 CST 2011 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
The compilation machine is a Debian 9 ...
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VPN Software that allow tunneling only for a specific application on windows
Goal : Tunnel specific application(s)'s connection(s) through a vpn
I want to know what vpn software application(s) would allow me to make only specific applications' connections to go through a vpn?
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OpenVPN - Actual download speed is **exactly** half of bandwidth
While using OpenVPN, measurements on server-side upstream (tun0 and eth0) and client-side downstream (Networx) agree that my connection is at 16 Mbit/s.
But, all of my PC applications are seeing ...
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Windows XP firewall doesnot allow to connect from vpn
I connect to my home asus router through openvpn. I can use internet over vpn but i cannot see Windows XP computers in the home network.
I asked similar question for Windows 7
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How to configure OpenVPN to access local clients
EDIT2: Per my first edit below, I determined OpenVPN connects just fine in a public environment and routes all traffic through it. The real question is, how do I configure my files so my desktop ...
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FreeBSD 11, OpenVPN 2.4.0 Bridged Connection Issues
I'm able to authenticate, obtain the 192.168.1.90 IP address from the OpenVPN server, and tcpdump broadcast traffic from the 192.168.1.0/24 network from the client tap0 interface.
Whenever I try to ...
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Blocking DHCP between two bridged home networks using nft
So my setup is as follows. I have two home networks and a server standing elsewhere. I'm running OpenVPN as a server, on the server to connect the two home networks into a single big network. Because ...
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DNS resolution of instances' private hostnames with OpenVPN on EC2
The end goal of my setup is to for EC2 instance hostnames to be resolvable on the VPN clients, in addition to any private R53 entries.
I have a working OpenVPN server config (connections are ...
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OpenVPN on Mac OS X. utun or tap/tun.kext
I am using Mac OS X 10.11.6 and I have found out that I can run OpenVPN client without kextload of tun/tap driver. I suppose Mac OS X has default utun driver.
I just want to clarify when I must load ...
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Port forward from LAN to an OpenVPN client (iptables?)
I have a OpenVPN server running in a LAN (locally addressable at 192.168.1.12) and I'd like to forward requests to it from other devices on the LAN, over just port 3000, to one of the VPN clients. (10....
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Internal Domain on OpenVPN with Dnsmasq
I'm trying to get dnsmaq and OpenVPN working together on DigitalOcean. I want to create a VPN that forwards the requests that end with *.local to the droplet and the others to be resolved by Google ...
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All connections lost when connecting to OpenVPN server
What I have:
OSX/PC
VDS (ubuntu server)
VPN provider account
What I did:
Installed openvpn on VDS.
Successfully connected from PC to VDS server.
Successfully connected from VDS to VPN provider with ...
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Windows + Tomato - Client 2 Client logic = help please
Background: Client wants a (seemingly simple) VPN solution to connect his main-office(site A) to his satellite-office(site B)(in same city)
Never attempted OpenVPN. Purchased 2 ASUS RT-N66 routers ...
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Windows OpenVPN server, clients can't reach LAN behind server
I`m trying to setup an Windows OpenVPN server to share the network behind this server.
On Linux I've done this several times. However on a Windows server I don't have any luck getting this to work.
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DD-WRT OpenVPN won't connect from remote location
I have DD-WRT v24-sp2 (12/22/14) std on my TPLink 3600 and I have configured my OpenVPN server. When I try to connect to my LAN, it works, but it is invisible from the internet.
Certificates are not ...
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OpenVPN with AsusWRT-Merlin
I'm trying to setup my router running the AsusWRT-Merlin firmware as an OpenVPN client. The VPN is a simple static key based one to my root server. The goal is to have all traffic from my local net to ...
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Static DNS when connected to VPN loses internet connection
I have a relatively standard home network environment, with my Windows 8.1 computer connected to the ISP's router/modem. Internet works with regular DHCP for my IP and DNS servers (that is, nothing is ...
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OpenVPN Access Server hangs after a while
We have an OpenVPN Access Server (OpenVPN AS) installed on one of our bare metal servers. The service runs fine, but after a while—indefinitely, maybe hours, maybe a day—it just hangs. The process is ...
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OpenVPN works fine on windows but not everything on ubuntu
I have setup OpenVPN connection on windows and ubunt PCs. there are several websites I should be able to reach with this VPN connection and everything is fin with windows as I can reach them all. but ...
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How to setup an OpenVpn tunnel to IPV4 from a dualstack lite (ipv6 address only) cable modem
As of today, I am on a nice and fast new cable modem connection. Unfortunately, that connection is natted to an external shared IPV4 by my ISP. It is only possible to reach my modem via a unique IPV6 ...
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Routing subnet to specific routing table with fwmark, direct to ISP and VPN
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I'm trying to set up a VPN on my router so that I have two routing tables. I want it so that all the filtering is done with iptables, and iproute just acts on the specific fwmarks, ie ...
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ISP Issues - TCP Out-of-Order
Accessing any webpage (basically any TCP connection), results in multiple retries before and long loading times before it loads a page with missing elements (reload might fix it). Google Chrome throws ...
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How can my home server accept and reply to connections from the Internet when OpenVPN client is running?
I have a headless home server running Ubuntu Server 12.04. A 3rd party website (to which I'm subscribed) periodically sends commands to a daemon on my home server which in turn responds to the 3rd ...
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OpenVPN client unable to connect to obfsproxy
I've set up my VPN server and client all working fine, but I'm trying to obfuscate the traffic with obfsproxy according to this guide, however it is not working for me on my elementaryOS-based pc.
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OpenVPN does not connect VIA FrootVPN
Suddenly quit working... again...
OpenVPN 2.3.6 (32 bit)
Latest FrootVPN config file
Windows 7 64 bit
Port 1194 is open for UDP AND TCP
I have been told to use 32 bit OpenVPN due to bugs, and it ...
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Cannot access network connected to OpenVPN server
The VPN server (Linux) is behind a router. I want to connect from an external network to my VPN server and access devices in the server’s local network (and the server itself).
The local network’s ...
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OpenVPN client tun device name in OSX
I have a VPN server set up that I am using to connect to from my OSX 10.9 laptop. When I load my openvpn profile with tunnelblick, it works, and I get a device named "tun0" just like you would expect.
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Providing secure access of internal network to outsiders of internal network [closed]
How can we give secure access of our internal network to some one who is not in our internal network. What can be most secure way of doing that?
We have created a java based webportal which is ...
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squid blocking access to http and https by IP, but not by domain
I've been succesfully using openvpn from my Windows 7 laptop whilst connecting to public wifi networks but have come across one network where I can not access the openvpn server as access to any and ...
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Bridging my VM with an OpenVPN adapter
Beginner user here,I start to slowly learn about networks, virtual machines and so.
Here is my set up.
I have a host system, running Windows 8.1. On my host system is installed OpenVPN, with a ...
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How to set up Linux VPN server and connect from a Mac?
I am trying to set up my own VPN server on a Linux box which I would connect to from my Mac, and I am having trouble figuring out which is the best and easiest(recommended) way to do that. Which VPN ...
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How to auto login with OpenVPN
OpenVPN v5. ask about password in every connection try, so I want to automate this process. I created file password.txt with username/password and added line auth-user-pass password.txt to .ovpn ...
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RDP over OpenVPN in Windows 8
I'm trying to configure a Windows 8 computer to allow RDP over OpenVPN. I successfully configured OpenVPN to start at boot, using the OpenVPN service. My problem is that Windows 8 sees the TAP ...
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Tunneling traffic through OpenVPN
Following the steps described here I've managed to configure both the VPN server and client(I can ping both ways). Their respective configuration files are:
server:
;local a.b.c.d
port 1194
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Ubuntu+NetworkManager+openvpn - completely replace /etc/resolv.conf with openvpn pushed DNS servers?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but have configured NetworkManager to NOT use its built in dnsmasq for DNS resolution (by commenting out dns=dnsmasq in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf) as ...