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Help with OpenVPN Client on Windows 10
Hello, I have looked through a lot of the posts here and I found a few that talked about this problem but I have tried and tried to get this working and I am having no luck at all. I have searched go...
There are two solutions to this problem:
- Download a different OpenVPN Client. The specific application OpenVPN Connect Client supports only tun connections. There is other software from OpenVPN that does support tap connections on Windows 10. (It's the word "Connect". There is another OpenVPN Client that is just OpenVPN Client.)
On Windows 10, I use the tunXten software which supports both tap and tun. (I like the ability to switch between VPN hosts better with tunXten than with OpenVPN Connect Client. - but that's just my opinion.) - If you want to use OpenVPN Connect Client, change the ovpn file in two ways,
1) change "tap" to "tun"
2) dhange the port number from 12974 to 12973
These changes tell OpenVPN Connect Client to use tun (which works)
- Download a different OpenVPN Client. The specific application OpenVPN Connect Client supports only tun connections. There is other software from OpenVPN that does support tap connections on Windows 10. (It's the word "Connect". There is another OpenVPN Client that is just OpenVPN Client.)
Thank you again for your responses.
If I am going to try using the OpenVPN Connect V3 version, I understand that I need to change two things in the config file.
1. I need to change “tap” to “tun” (instead of saying “dev tap” it will say “dev tun”)
2. I need to change the port number from “12974” to “12973”.
I see the line where I need to change it to tun. But in the config file I don’t currently see a specified port number to change. Screenshot of config file is in original post.
Where should I be putting in the correct port number in the config file?
If I am going to try using the OpenVPN Connect V3 version, I understand that I need to change two things in the config file.
1. I need to change “tap” to “tun” (instead of saying “dev tap” it will say “dev tun”)
2. I need to change the port number from “12974” to “12973”.
I see the line where I need to change it to tun. But in the config file I don’t currently see a specified port number to change. Screenshot of config file is in original post.
Where should I be putting in the correct port number in the config file?
I see the confusion. On the line that starts "remote", you carefully blocked out the Dynamic DNS name. The port number is at the end of that line and is also blocked out on the image that was uploaded to the forum.
:smileyembarrassed: yes I did, wow I am sorry for that oversight.
I changed "dev tap" to "dev tun" and I changed the port to 12973, imported the file and clicked connect and everything is working!