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openvpn logrotate
I'm trying to rotate OpenVPNs logfiles every month. The problem seems to be that simply renaming the files doesn't do the trick. The data still gets written to the old file (which indicates that the ...
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setup openvpn on linux
First of all I must confess I have no understanding of Linux networking except some basic commands (i.e ifconfig) etc and neither I am a networking person, I am a developer and trying to setup a ...
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VPN, one server, multiple clients
I wanted to know if it was possible to have a server running OpenVPN with server key and have multiple clients connect to it?
I would like the server to be 10.9.8.1, the first client to be 10.9.8.2 ...
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OpenVPN problem
today! I've Configure an OpenVPN (2.0.9) on a CentOS 6.2 (2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64) to accept OpenVPN client connection.
but when I try to connect from Windows 7 by OpenVPN client tool it return me ...
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Problem to setup OpenVPN to VPNBook
I'm trying to setup OpenVPN with VPNBook but this is not working.
I've downloaded configurations and certificate of VPNBook site.
% ls
vpnbook.crt vpnbook-UDP53.ovpn
% sudo openvpn --config ...
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Iptables forward with pptp and openvpn
I have OpenVPN and PPTP installed on a VPS. I'm having a few questions that I can't seem to get a firm answer on.
I want to install OpenVPN on 1.1.1.1 (eth0, public IP address) and PPTP on 1.1.1.2 ...
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Connecting from OpenVPN Server to MySQL Server
I have an OpenVPN server installed on a server. What I'm trying to do connect from the OpenVPN server using the mysql client to the MySQL server than is connected to the OpenVPN server using a ...
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Tools to find OpenVPN UDP packet corruption
Are there Unix tools to troubleshoot UDP packet corruption? I'd like to avoid writing my own...
I think ping might report when a packet is corrupted, but it doesn't really seem to have options ...
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IPFW Port Forwarding
This is my situation: I want to connect to an OpenVPN server from my office (we're using a proxy, only ports 80 and 443 are allowed).
Server IP address is: 176.31.250.232:843
My static IP address ...
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Only routing certain traffic through VPN
I have a central development server, running a VPN server, and a couple clients that need to connect to it. The server is running Apache, but is only accepting local requests (only listening on ...
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Should a VPN have access to all networks from and on all clients?
I have an OpenVPN server and many clients connecting. The VPN settings include
port 443
dev tun
proto tcp
When I add clients to my VPN I have to use apaches proxypass in order to access resources ...
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Ensure torrent client uses openvpn
I recently signed up to a VPN provider and to log in, I use network manager for my normal wireless connection and then start the openvpn connection from network manager.
In my browser I can check ...
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OpenVPN dropping connection every time interval
I have setup OpenVPN. The server is a router running DD-WRT with OpenVPN setup. The client is Ubuntu 12.04. The connection is established without issues. I can ping clients at the VPN side. The ...
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Cannot see an EC2 VPN server from another EC2 instance
I'm using openVPN to connect to one EC2 instance from another. The client cannot see the server, however, despite that servers outside of AWS can see the server and successfully negotiate with it.
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OpenVPN struggling
I've got some problems with my OpenVPN setup.
The Setup:
-> Ubuntu Server 12.04
-> Two active NIC's: eth0 (default): 192.168.1.0/24
eth1: x.x.x.x (external ip)
I've managed to get the routing to ...
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Configuring OpenVPN to share internet
my university is providing OpenVPN to provide public internet IP address for students (for some libraries etc.) - in other words, they are sharing their internet connection via openVPN...
I would ...
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What is the security impact of not using tls-remote with OpenVPN
Is it a security issue not using the tls-remote option in OpenVPN? That is not verifying the server's common name. Is a MITM attack possible? Could this be an issue, especially with services like ...
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openvpn WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled
I tried to install openvpn on debian squeez (server) and connect from my fedora 17 as (client). Here is my configuration:
server configuration
# Server TCP
proto tcp
port 1194
dev tun
# Keys and ...
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1:1 NAT with several identical LANs
I want to connect several LANs located on remote buildings.
The "central" site have a Linux computer running OpenVPN. Each remote site also run OpenVPN.
the central site has a LAN numbered ...
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OpenVPN uses wrong IP-Address
I've installed OpenVPN on a client (behind NAT-Router) and a VPS server. The tunnel is established. However, ping is only possible from client to server. The server uses its public IP address on tun0 ...
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Port forward to VPN Client?
I've run into a bit of a puzzle and haven't had much luck finding a solution. Right now I am (sadly) connected to the net via Verizon 3G. They filter all incoming traffic so it is impossible for me to ...
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Change default DNS on openvpn connect
I am using Network Manager on Ubuntu 12.10 to connect to an openvpn server. The connection works without problems. However, when I connect, I would like to change my default DNS server to a server ...
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No ports can be found using port scan
Problem:
I have a laptop and a server (Home-Server) with fc17. They are both using the desktop environment. I am trying to set up a VNC server on Home-Server so that I can set everything up without ...
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Cannot load tun module
I cannot manage to load the tun module in my archlinux box. I'm trying
to connect with openvpn, but the log says
nm-openvpn[6662]: Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device ...
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Controlling openvpn auth-user-pass in ifup scripts?
I have the following configured in /etc/network/interfaces:
iface companyvpn inet manual
openvpn company
This allows me to:
ifup companyvpn
But unfortunately I am unable to provide my ...
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iCloud stuff stops working while connected to OpenVPN
I have a fairly simple OpenVPN setup on an OpenVZ VPS with Ubuntu 11.10. Client is the Viscosity client on Mac OS X 10.8.2, and after some testing, we can rule out the client as being part of the ...
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Connect to a VPN from a Linux Virtual Machine
I am running an Ubuntu distro inside a VMWare virtual machine with a bridged connection on a Windows 7 host. What I am trying to do is to have the virtual machine connect to a VPN, but I'm not having ...
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Unable to use SIP over VPN, how to find out why
I am doing a VPN access using openvpn utility to connect to my private network. However I cannot use my SIP soft-phone service (which uses a private domain) even if I am connected to that private ...
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How to make sure OpenVPN is connected?
I need some sort of "safeguard" for my VPN connection. If the connection drops, the machine shouldn't even reach the internet. (I can reach the machine by other means.)
Is it possible somehow?
If I ...
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No connections work after starting OpenVPN service?
I setup my Scientific Linux 6.2 as an OpenVPN client via the instructions here, and restarted my OpenVPN service. I checked /var/log/messages and it says the VPN connection was established. However, ...
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How to persist a file in /usr/local in embedded FreeNAS
I have embedded FreeNAS, version 8.2 beta. Now I would like to install openvpn, of course persisting between updates.
I have managed to get the program itself persist by using
mount -wu /
pkg_add ...
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How can I force a tap/tun interface into the running state?
I am trying to capture packets on a tun interface with libpcap.
I am creating the interface with:
openvpn --mktun --dev tun0
When the adapter is setup it appears as so when I run ifconfig:
tun0 ...
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Remote SSH login not working
I have a PC behind a router with port forwarding setup Port 22 for SSH which works perfectly - I can login and everything. What I am trying to do is let this PC connect to a VPN and only allow ...
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SIOCSIFNETMASK: Invalid argument using OpenVPN on Ubuntu
Trying to configure OpenVPN client on my Ubuntu desktop.
Conf file:
remote 192.168.11.103
#192.168.11.103
#85.249.45.106
#dev-node tap0
dev tap
port 5027
ifconfig 10.9.0.74 10.9.0.73
route ...
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Should OpenVPN point to point tunnels be on different ports?
The OpenVPN cookbook shows an example for site-to-site VPN (3 sites). They configured each tunnel on a unique port:
site A to site B: 1194
site A to site C: 1195
site B to site C: 1196
The author ...
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Installing OpenVPN to replace Cisco VPN because Cisco will not work with the kernel I am on or downgrade instead?
I had difficulties installing Cisco5.0 VPN on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I asked for assistance in this question: link to previous question. The answer is that this Cisco program will run on only older ...
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How to configure OpenVPN to only listen on given interface?
How can I configure an OpenVPN server on a Linux machine to only listen on given interfaces? Are there any features like this in OpenVPN?
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Proxy or VPN behind the router
I have a home network under the router, and there is my proxy server with ports forwarded through the router. Some clients connects to the Internet via my proxy, but there is a little problem - ...
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OpenVPN bridge. Can't access machines on local network
Followed this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Bridge
This is my setup: I have a wireless router(192.168.2.1) which connects to the Internet through a PPPoE connection and acts as ...
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Routing in OpenVPN between a private network and a client
I'm trying to setup OpenVPN between a private network and home clients that connect to it. (The clients don't need to connect to each other). The network topology is a little interesting. There is a ...
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Are there any better/safer methods to launch the OpenVPN client as a normal user?
I'm trying to connect to an OpenVPN server. It works perfectly when I use root to give out the commands to connect:
openvpn /etc/openvpn/client.conf
but with a normal user I get this error messages ...
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Passing the “--float” option to OpenVPN client from NetworkManager
NetworkManager on Fedora14 doesn't support the "--float" parameter of OpenVPN client.
Are there any workarounds to connect with NetworkManager to an OpenVPN network using the --float option?
Or are ...
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How to refuse routes that are PUSHed by OpenVPN server?
When I establish an OpenVPN client connection over the Internet to our corporate OpenVPN server, it pushes several static routes. Unfortunately, these routes break some connectivity within my local ...
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OpenVPN on OpenWrt
I have a step-by-step guide for OpenVPN on an OpenWRT 10.03 router: (wl500gpv2)
Needed packages
opkg install openvpn_2.1.1-1_brcm-2.4.ipk kmod-tun_2.4.37.9-1_brcm-2.4.ipk ...
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Slow NFS, nfsstat -c: what is authrefrsh (aka newcreds?) field about in detail?
(net-fs/nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1, 2.6.38.5-zen+ Gentoo)
Googling this seems to be a complete dead end. man nfsstat says a whole lot of nothing about the subject. The closest I could get was finding out ...
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Establish openvpn tunnel in bash script
I'm trying to write a script which will establish an openvpn tunnel when the computer boots up. The main problem lies in inputting the pkcs12 password. I realise it's very bad practice to have a ...
