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    • F
      farrukhndm
      last edited by

      My WAN firewall rule is
      TCP/UDP  *  *  *  1194 (OpenVPN)  *      OPEN VPN

      when i connect through windows client ,during connection process it takes password and accept it and then give error on
      Wed Jan 13 17:08:04 2010 us=932643 TCP: connect to 203.xxx.xxx.xx:1194 failed, will try again in 5 seconds

      My pfsense.ovpn
      float
      port 1194
      dev tun
      dev-node ovpn
      proto tcp-client
      remote 203.xxx.xxx.xx 1194
      ping 10
      persist-tun
      persist-key
      tls-client
      ca ca.crt
      cert client01.crt               
      key client01.key
      ns-cert-type server
      #comp-lzo ? to enable LZO remove the #
      pull
      verb 4

      ==========
      will you explain dev-node  ovpn, i have put it to ovpn ?? whats this value o be ,from where i can take.

      please help me to make connectivity .thanks.waiting.

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      • AhnHELA
        AhnHEL
        last edited by

        Windows might be blocking your connection.  Disable Windows Firewall on your client and see if it connects successfully.

        AhnHEL (Angel)

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          farrukhndm
          last edited by

          i have turned off windows firewall but still unable to connect with pfsense openvpn server.how i can check out the openvpn log so post the logs on forum which may be helpful to resolve my connectivity issue.thanks and waiting.

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            farrukhndm
            last edited by

            My Xp Client is connected to Openvpn.the problem was on Client side in My pfsense.ovpn i have comment out #dev-node ovpn.
            now my new setting will be
            C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config\pfsense.ovpn

            float
            port 1194
            dev tun #dev-node ovpn        //comment it
            proto tcp-client
            remote 203.xxx.xxx.xx 1194
            ping 10
            persist-tun
            persist-key
            tls-client
            ca ca.crt
            cert client01.crt               
            key client01.key
            ns-cert-type server
            #comp-lzo ? to enable LZO remove the #
            pull
            verb 4

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