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OpenVPN is a free virtual private network (VPN) client and daemon.

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In Gnome 48, I manually configured a VPN connection with the GUI. I specified the 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 DNS servers and turned off automatic DNS. So why does it still include 192.168.1.1 ? This is the ...
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I want to set up OpenVPN version 2.4 or 2.6 on AlmaLinux 8 on a VPS and connect using the OpenVPN v2.4 GUI application. I tried some scripts to set up, all of them installed properly, but during ...
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I am using CentOS 10, and I am trying to send the SSH logs to an external syslog server listening on port UDP 514. I changed the default logging facility of sshd to local2 and tested it locally and it ...
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Edit: 05/24, I'm able to capture wirshark logs in my WSL Ubuntu distro , But still when wireshark logs are captured through windows hyper-v interface from windows it does not capture all the packets ...
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I frequently switch between different VPN configurations on Linux: WireGuard (wg-quick up/down) A corporate OpenVPN profile (sudo openvpn corp.ovpn, which prompts for a private key password) Right ...
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I have the following setup: Machine 1 -> Home router -> Internet -> Mobile hotspot -> Machine 2 Machine 1 is running an OpenVPN server on UDP port 1194 and SSH on port 2022. I want to SSH ...
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I have an openvpn conf.ovpn file imported in nmcli using nmcli connection import type openvpn file ./conf.ovpn I opened Networkmanager GUI and set the username for this connection. I am trying to ...
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I'm using my Asus router's openvpn server. The router's gateway IP is 192.168.50.1 The VPN server's subnet is set to 192.168.100.0 I downloaded the ovpn file from the router page and used it on my ...
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My son has an OpenVPN server set up on his NetGear router in the UK. I am in Italy and have an OpenVPN Client that works fine on Windows but I want to connect also from my Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu ...
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I got OpenVPN working quite smoothly following this debian wiki. I went through all the steps from the raw testing connection, the static key, and finally the certificates option. My server and ...
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I have two PC (one with Archlinux, the other with Kalilinux) which I want to connect to a Sever through VPN (University gave me the ovpn file). With both I can run sudo openvpn <file> but: with ...
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I have been a linux user for some years although I'm very new to the networking aspects. This is the first time I will use OpenVPN and I have been strugling to make it work for a few days. I need to ...
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m looking for some help, I'm trying to connect to a host under a 4G router through VPN. First step, I'm using a raspberry pi 5 with raspberry pi os 64 bits, with openvpn3 installed on it. On a ...
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I’m using OpenVPN on Linux Mint 21, and it works fine. Now I’m trying to use the same configuration on Linux Mint 22, but the connection fails. I have no idea how to solve this. Can anyone help me, ...
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I got a problem with an openvpn server on dedicated hosting vm - the problem is that the packets do not pass to the client after the connection is established (although during the establishment of ...
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I have an .ovpn config that I use daily on my iPhone and Mac using the OpenVPN client apps, and I’m trying to set it up on my Steam Deck (SteamOS which is Arch based) for cloud gaming. I installed the ...
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When connecting to an OpenVPN server I use an FQDN that may resolve into multiple IP addresses yet only one of them is chosen/used as long as the VPN session is alive. How can I get it? ifconfig, ...
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I have a small server which acts as an OpenVPN server and a ZNC server, among other things. The ZNC server runs in a docker container and is accessible locally via the server host IP. Server IP: 172....
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I have set a VPN server (ubuntu) with a docker from the kyle/manna project. I want to establish two different VPN tunnels (VPN tunnel 1 and VPN tunnel 2) from another device (ubuntu) which owns two ...
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For the past couple of days i've been trying to acheive this simple idea > as an extra measure to secure my machine, i would like to restrict SSH to only be available to OpenVPN users in which i ...
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I have OpenVPN with username/password on my Android mobile which works perfectly. I installed OpenVPN on my Arch Linux and created a username/password file in home directory and wrote it terminal: ...
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I have a server that hosts virtual clients (KVM). My virtual network uses the IP range 192.168.122.0/16, which means I want to communicate with addresses in the range 192.168.x.y. Now I am installing ...
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I have an OpenVPN server installed on Linux (Linux Wonderland 4.19.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.289-2 (2023-08-08) x86_64) and it works fine with OpenVPN client on Windows 10. Is there a way to use ...
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I am struggling with this script of mine that should prepare a secure VPN connection with VPN kill switch and I need some help. What I am trying to do (in general): My goal is to set up a very strict ...
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i have both open vpn server and client. the client is my windows pc and the server is a ubuntu 22 VPS. im running openvpn on the serverside with this command : openvpn --dev tun --ifconfig 172.16.0.1 ...
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I am using Yocto for a rpi4 target. I was using a systemd service to activate my VPN over openvpn at boot: [Unit] Description=OpenVPN connection to .ovpn file After=network.target [Service] Type=...
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I followed the steps from the OpenVPN Access Server Portal to install OpenVPN Access Server on an Ubuntu Server 22 headless VM. After installing and automatically configuring the service, I went to ...
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I am trying to use OpenVPN as a client under NetBSD using this command: openvpn --client --config /etc/openvpn/config.ovpn I am getting the following output and errors: localhost# openvpn --client --...
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OpenVPN client and systemed-resolved. When I run OpenVPN client, it'll get connected and will be able to load the target resources properly only during the very first launch, after reboot. On all the ...
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The problem is this: The only officially supported router configuration for nordvpn is to use a static config file and openvpn. That doesn't work for me. The question: Using linux, how does one setup ...
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Questions Hello guys: I bought a VPS and built my own OpenVPN server. I want to use it to fulfill some of my needs. Then I configured the client through various channels (including but not limited to ...
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I connected my university-vpn via openvpn on Windows, Ubuntu and Manjaro. Windows worked instantly, no configuration was needed. When using any Linux-System, connecting to the vpn seems to work but ...
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On my router I opened port 21 to FTP and server(Alma Linux 9)works on my public adress IP. In firewalld I set below rule where access has my public IP and it works. sudo firewall-cmd \ --...
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My problem: I am using Ubuntu 22.04 with a VPN from ExpressVPN set up using their cli tool, they also provide an ovpn configuration file, so I can tweak the configuration as I please while maintaining ...
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I have a server hosted outside that has a webserver and I access it using SSH, its ip is 111.111.111.111. The problem arise when I connect the server to a VPN using OpenVPN sudo openvpn XXX.ovpn(...
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I have successfully chrooted Fedora among other distros in my Android but I've run in a problem I cannot overcome. I am trying to use openvpn on a .ovpn file, however I am unable to open /dev/net/tun ...
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I cannot figure out how it's possible that I'm getting "permission denied" as root (and as a normal user) when I launch openvpn3 on Ubuntu 23.10 : $ openvpn3 session-start --dco true --...
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I'm running Ubuntu 23.10 on a I9 cpu + Nvidia Geforce RTX 2080 ti and the driver 545 right now. I would like to install the OpenVPN 3 client on my Ubuntu,but I'm not able to install the repository : ...
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When I connect to openvpn, I want to be able to access the devices in the openvpn local network and use my local internet. But I can only access local internet and openvpn server machine. Can't access ...
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I've been having trouble connecting to tryhackme's SSH server from my Linux machine (Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon). The terminal displays a port 22 connection timeout error. Here's the output from the ...
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My openvpn server stopped working and I cannot get any information what goes wrong. I see the packets coming in on the interface with tcpdump: 09:06:33.283561 ARP, Request who-has blueberryext.home ...
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Using Debian 11. I set up CyberGhost VPN using the .ovpn file, client key and certificates they provide on their website. Copied all files to /etc/openvpn/. Using the following commands will allow me ...
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problem: I've setup a new ubuntu 20 vm on esxi and installed openvpn. It can connect to multiple vpn servers, like protonvpn, but only through tcp, not udp. troubleshooting: Used netcat to verify ...
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I'm connecting to an OpenVPN server in Ubuntu using networkmanager. The connection establishes fine, but a route is being created that routes the vpn server's IP out the wrong interface. default via ...
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for several months, if not weeks, I have had a fully functional connection to an ExpressVPN server via the "NetworkManager" on OpenSuse, but now, suddenly, it reports "failed to ...
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I am using Debian on a VPS and now I need to connect it to my university vpn using OpenVPN. I have .ovpn file imported and I can see the connection in nmcli c. But when I issue nmcli c up myvpn I get ...
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Here is the scenario: On myHost (1.1.1.1) I run: sshuttle -r user@remoteHost 0/0 Now, if I check the my current IP on myHost with an http request directed to one of those services that echo your IP, ...
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I have several fedora servers being gateways for local networks and are connected via tunnels: server A running OpenVPN server with eth0 192.168.1.1/24 tun0 192.168.94.1 and eth1 1.1.1.1 server B ...
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My OpenVPN server is running under nobody account and it is configured to call a script once a client gets connected (for logging client's IP along with some info): client-connect "/etc/openvpn/...
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Since my last system update the existing OpenVPN connection stopped working because it started requesting the "Private Key Password" (note this is not the "User Password", as ...
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