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    OpenVPN with Viscosity connection can’t handle two clients

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      DominikHoffmann
      last edited by DominikHoffmann

      I have set up an OpenVPN server on my pfSense box at home. It works just fine, and when connecting using tap, it’s almost an identical experience to being at home.

      However, when I connect two clients (Mac) to the VPN, the cycle through making the connection, cutting it, and establishing it. I have only been able to test this with both being on the same outside network (my neighbor’s or my son’s school’s). I have not tried this with both clients making VPN connections from different outside LANs.

      Here is the log that shows what might be going on. I myself do not possess enough expertise to understand what is.

      Here is the part of the Viscosity log file that shows what’s going on (I’ll look for the pfSense OpenVPN logs and will put them in a follow-up message in this thread):

      2020-11-21 14:42:15: Viscosity Mac 1.9 (1556)
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: Viscosity OpenVPN Engine Started
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: Running on macOS 11.0.1
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: ---------
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: State changed to Connecting
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: Valid existing endpoint found... 208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443:tcp4-client
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443
      2020-11-21 14:42:15: Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443 [nonblock]
      2020-11-21 14:42:17: TCP connection established with [AF_INET]208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443
      2020-11-21 14:42:17: TCPv4_CLIENT link local: (not bound)
      2020-11-21 14:42:17: TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443
      2020-11-21 14:42:17: State changed to Authenticating
      2020-11-21 14:42:18: [server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]208.xxx.xxx.xxx:443
      2020-11-21 14:42:19: Preserving previous TUN/TAP instance: en12
      2020-11-21 14:42:19: Initialization Sequence Completed
      2020-11-21 14:42:19: Disabling DHCP on interface en12 (not required)
      2020-11-21 14:42:19: DNS mode set to Split
      2020-11-21 14:42:19: State changed to Connected
      2020-11-21 14:42:24: Connection reset, restarting [0]
      2020-11-21 14:42:24: SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting
      

      … and then it repeats itself.

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          DominikHoffmann
          last edited by DominikHoffmann

          OpenVPN log:

          Nov 21 20:12:36	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: Client connected from /var/etc/openvpn/server3.sock
          Nov 21 20:12:37	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: CMD 'status 2'
          Nov 21 20:12:37	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: CMD 'quit'
          Nov 21 20:12:37	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected
          Nov 21 20:13:41	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: Client connected from /var/etc/openvpn/server3.sock
          Nov 21 20:13:41	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: CMD 'status 2'
          Nov 21 20:13:41	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: CMD 'quit'
          Nov 21 20:13:41	openvpn	59802	MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected
          

          … and so on.

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            DominikHoffmann
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            Just tried it with one client connecting to my home LAN through my neighbor’s WiFi network and this laptop connecting to it through a public xfinitywifi hotspot.

            Same issue. I wonder, what the interaction between two clients is.

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