OpenVPN + Windows 7

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Sp00n

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Why doesn't the dialer for windows work properly?

It just will not route properly, and if it does, then it only does it for a couple of minutes and then drops it for no apparent reason. I've added the standard fix of "route-method exe route-delay 2" but this makes no difference, it connects without an issue but I just cannot see anything on the other sides subnet.

I've tried manually adding the route which is very hit and miss so now I don't know what to do, grrr.

Has anyone had much luck with this?
 
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What kind of VPN server are you remoting into? I've been using OpenVPN on my Win7 laptop for quite a while, works great. VPN'ing into Untangle clients of mine.
 
I'm using open vpn right now on my Lenovo T510, with windows 7 64bit professional. Open vpn is working great.

Did you give it permission to run ?
 
prochobo said:
Right click on icon, "Run as administrator".
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Unfortunately this is what I have been doing, doesn't seem to make any difference.

For the record I am connecting to a dgteam netgear DG834GT.

When I connect sometimes I can ping the netgear, most of the time I can't but if I can it won't last and it brings down everything including my net access so it's also defaulting to the remote gateway, I don't want this either but that's another issue.

Here's the connect log would looks fine to me:

Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 OpenVPN 2.0.9 Win32-MinGW [SSL] [LZO] built on Oct 1 2006
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Static Encrypt: Cipher 'DES-EDE3-CBC' initialized with 192 bit key
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Static Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Static Decrypt: Cipher 'DES-EDE3-CBC' initialized with 192 bit key
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Static Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 LZO compression initialized
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 2] opened: \\.\Global\{F78E2B26-D52C-46D0-8CD4-D1DFF8B5F15D}.tap
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 TAP-Win32 Driver Version 8.4
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 TAP-Win32 MTU=1500
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Successful ARP Flush on interface [15] {F78E2B26-D52C-46D0-8CD4-D1DFF8B5F15D}
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1577 D:1450 EF:45 EB:135 ET:32 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '931da659'
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): '931da659'
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Wed Sep 15 09:06:25 2010 UDPv4 link remote: x.x.x.x:1194
Wed Sep 15 09:06:35 2010 Peer Connection Initiated with x.x.x.x:1194
Wed Sep 15 09:06:38 2010 TEST ROUTES: 0/0 succeeded len=-1 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up
Wed Sep 15 09:06:38 2010 Initialization Sequence Completed
 
back when i had issues I found a solution somewhere saying to add these two lines to your client config:

route-method exe
route-delay 2

never had issues since
 
Sp00n said:
I've added the standard fix of "route-method exe route-delay 2" but this makes no difference
Click to expand...

As I have said, it is still dropping the connection with or without those 2 additional lines :(
 
Os sorry, missed that somehow. other than that and admin mode i don't know, never had any issues otherwise :(
 
I didn't have any issues when I was running this on windows XP and nothing has changed router end, it just doesn't seem to play nicely with windows 7. I've even setup a new box to test it on but it's just as flaky.

At this rate I might end up going back to PPTP :eek: :(

/edit seems to be behaving today :\ ffs.
 
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Nope, it's still utterly crap, it will connect, route for about 3 seconds and then just fail out.

Don't have a problem with an XP client.
 
Dunno...maybe something weird with your rig.
Latest NIC drivers?
Run a TCP/Winsock repair (netsh reset)


I just got done doing remote work to several different networks via OpenVPN on my Win7 laptop, at least the version for Untangle works fine.
 
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