Topic: Openvpn Help

[ramasule]

I installed openvpn according to the contrib and it was fine.
I installed portopener and opened 1194

My server is in server only mode and my gateway/firewall is my router.
and it is forwarding port 1194 to my box

When I scan from outside the network port 1194 does not respond / is not open.

Any suggestions?

If you have time to help me, ssh works on my box and I have remote management on my router if you can pook your head in send me a pm.

Thank you for your time,

Derek L

[Per]

I'm far from a VPN expert but it sounds a little awkward to have a VPN server on anything else than on the gateway. At least it complicates things (and probably reduce security).

I suggest a router with vpn feature or taking advantage of SME server capability's and use it as the gateway (and VPN server, router, firewall, etc).

[ramasule]

Eventually thats the way it will be but I had to get it up and going and get out of town.
I also couldnt chance using it as my gateway and not configuring it right leaving my family without internet for 2 weeks.

[ramasule]

I used nmap to scan the ports instead of generic scanner and its open and I now have openvpn working thanks.

[Per]

For the sake of education (and my curiosity), what was the problem?

[ramasule]

My problem was incompetency. I was using a bunch of different port scanners that only scan tcp not the udp.  When I installed nmap it showed the port open|stealthed which was good enough for me.  I went ahead with the install and it worked like butter according to the lovley openvpn guide located on this fine site

[Per]

Glad it worked out.
Have a nice VPN-day!