OpenVPN server problem.
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2013 8:29 pm
Hi all,
I had an OpenVPN server setup on my WZR-HP-G300NH v1 running Gargoyle 1.5.9. Yesterday the router became unstable after adding some whitelist changes to the Restrictions list... it would restart everytime it attempted to get a WAN address lease.
Anyways, I re-flashed the router with the firmware again and that solved the restart problem. However, I have not been able to configure OpenVPN. The GUI will not create the necessary files. It's as if the configuration script is not running. It will say "running, not connected", but if you shh into the router and look inside the /etc/openvpn folder there is nothing. The certificates are not created and the firewall changes are not propagated through the router.
I have tried multiple times reflashing and seeing if I can get the UI to work. The one time it did work it created all of the files and made changes beautifully, however, the settings were not quite the way I wanted them. I attempted to change the settings in the UI and it claimed it had made the changes. However, if you ssh'ed into the openvpn config folder and looked at the server.conf file the settings were wrong.
I will keep trying to diagnose the problem on my own but I want to put this information out into the community to see if anybody has any helpful ideas or suggestions. I really appreciate it.
Thanks fellow Gargoylers!
I had an OpenVPN server setup on my WZR-HP-G300NH v1 running Gargoyle 1.5.9. Yesterday the router became unstable after adding some whitelist changes to the Restrictions list... it would restart everytime it attempted to get a WAN address lease.
Anyways, I re-flashed the router with the firmware again and that solved the restart problem. However, I have not been able to configure OpenVPN. The GUI will not create the necessary files. It's as if the configuration script is not running. It will say "running, not connected", but if you shh into the router and look inside the /etc/openvpn folder there is nothing. The certificates are not created and the firewall changes are not propagated through the router.
I have tried multiple times reflashing and seeing if I can get the UI to work. The one time it did work it created all of the files and made changes beautifully, however, the settings were not quite the way I wanted them. I attempted to change the settings in the UI and it claimed it had made the changes. However, if you ssh'ed into the openvpn config folder and looked at the server.conf file the settings were wrong.
I will keep trying to diagnose the problem on my own but I want to put this information out into the community to see if anybody has any helpful ideas or suggestions. I really appreciate it.
Thanks fellow Gargoylers!