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OpenVPN 2.6.12-1001 not working on Windows 11
Having a frustrating time getting OpenVPN working with my Nighthawk RS300 router on Windows 11. I have followed the install instructions from the Netgear website, including: - Changing network a...
Hello,
From what I understand, neither of those error messages prevent the vpn from connecting. The window in which those messages appear will disappear once the connection is fully established. The system tray icon should look like this once the connection is established:
VPN client is connected to server
(green for connected, black when there's no connection)
From what I understand from the Openvpn documentation, --cipher was used to select the encryption algorithm in earlier versions and the parameter is retained for compatibility.
To get a better idea of whats happening when the connection is setup I changed the config file "verb 0" to "verb 5" and found the following messages:
2025-01-22 21:09:34 us=406000 Outgoing Data Channel: Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key
2025-01-22 21:09:34 us=406000 Incoming Data Channel: Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key
2025-01-22 21:09:34 us=406000 Data Channel: cipher 'AES-256-GCM', peer-id: 0, compression: 'lzo'
This is good. This tells me data will be encrypted/decrypted with AES-256-GCM.
Hope this helps.