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RBR20 not receiving VPN connection
Hello everyone,
i'm trying to setup a vpn connection to access the network when I'm outside home. I followed the instructions provided in different posts: i configured and activated a dns (noip service) and activated the VPN, installed open vpn on my computer but the connection is never made. Specifically:
- my orbi system (RBR20, firmware V2.7.3.22, router mode) is connected to a modem which is provided by my ISP. I already set up this modem in bridge mode, disabling wifi.
- on the orbi logs, when attempting to connect through VPN, i do not see any voice related to VPN (failed connection or similar)
- the DNS is working, the status page on the orbi router is successful, and on the openvpn (verbose to 1) I can see that the ip is correctly resolved (the IP indicated is coherent with what I see on sites that provide the IP used
I have the log from OpenVPN:
2022-09-07 10:50:06 WARNING: Compression for receiving enabled. Compression has been used in the past to break encryption. Sent packets are not compressed unless "allow-compression yes" is also set.
2022-09-07 10:50:06 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'AES-128-CBC' but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'AES-128-CBC' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'AES-128-CBC' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'AES-128-CBC' to silence this warning.
2022-09-07 10:50:06 OpenVPN 2.5.7 Windows-MSVC [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on May 27 2022
2022-09-07 10:50:06 Windows version 6.1 (Windows 7) 64bit
2022-09-07 10:50:06 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1o 3 May 2022, LZO 2.10
2022-09-07 10:50:07 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
could someone point me where is the error?
thanks
- I have tried to change to tcp, but without success. The openvpn client starts as before, and the connection to the orb is never made.
So I have set up port forwarding, dmz, bridge mode but it looks that the ports are always closed: at least, trying from services on internet to check the status, it appears that none of the changes I make are working.
I’m starting to suspect that my ISP is blocking all ports, since I am using not a “regular” service but a wireless one (through telephone networks) because there was no coverage in my area for other tecnologies..
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How is the computer (Windows?) connected to the internet when the VPN connection is attempted?
- To the Orbi LAN?
- On another network (coffee shop? friend's house?)
- To a Hot Spot from a cell phone?
- The computer is a Windows 7 laptop, I have tried with the hotspot from a cell phone
Cell phone Hot Spot is how I test my OpenVPN setup. Could you verify that the client.ovpn file looks like this:
client dev tap proto udp dev-node NETGEAR-VPN remote *******.mynetgear.com 12974 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert client.crt key client.key cipher AES-128-CBC comp-lzo verb 0 sndbuf 393216 rcvbuf 393216 route-method exe
