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OpenVPN connects to router when clients on Ethernet but not on Wifi
I am having difficulty getting OpenVPN to work to connect to my RS300 router with my Windows 11 computers. I have a Dell XPS 16 9640 and a Microsoft Surface Pro 2103 both running Windows 11 Pro. Both...
Without making any changes, the VPN connection now works over wi-fi on the Dell laptop. The only change was a firmware update from Dell including for the wi-fi adapter. I tried updating the firmware on the tablet, but the problem still persists on that computer. I will continue to look at the difference between the tunnels and see what the difference is and if I can override it.
I have tracked the problem down to the Metric assigned to the network route for the two 0.0.0.0 "routes of last resort". For some reason, on the Surface Pro tablet, the route that goes to the interface IP assigned to the tablet on the server network is being assigned a metric number higher than the route that goes to the interface IP assigned to the tablet on the client network. If, after connecting, I manually assign a lower metric number to the server network route, the recursive addressing error goes away. I would like to find some way to fix this in the client OpenVPN config file that works regardless of what network the client is connected to. I have tried some route-metric commands in the config file but it has not made any difference to the routing table.