Issues with OpenVPN Configuration
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Laptops connect just fine and work.
I DID use this very phone as a hotspot, and connected a laptop to it and it worked great.
The issue guys, is with this phone connecting. Everything else connects fine. That's why it's all focused on the phone connection. That's where the problem lies.
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Could be a broken install of openvpn on your phone. Like either it needs root access and doesn't have it or you used the wrong version.
go take a look in the google play store at my apps and tell me the EXACT name of the openvpn app you are running.
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It's the official OpenVPN app. See the attached screenshot.
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I'm stumped
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I'm stumped
It's a real head scratcher! I just tried deleting the app and reinstalling it. No difference.
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Take the phone, grasp firmly in hand. Move hand back as far as you can stretch then push forward suddenly and release…
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Take the phone, grasp firmly in hand. Move hand back as far as you can stretch then push forward suddenly and release…
What's most frustrating is that it used to work great before the HDD in the PFSense failed.
Another frustrating this is that now, this morning, the VPN won't connect at all from phone. Before it would connect. Now the connection request just times out.
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After a reboot of the phone (after reinstalling OpenVPN Connect and downloading a new client export) it connects again just fine.
I can connect to the device I have at 192.168.1.201 in the web browser. I am ping 192.168.1.206 in the web browser. I cannot access 192.168.1.1 and the app on my phone that needs to connect to 192.168.1.206 can't see it.
Any other thoughts from anybody? It used to work… That's what frustrated me the most, is that I know it CAN work.
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I'm still not happy that there is a 192.168.1.1 on your LAN…
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I'm still not happy that there is a 192.168.1.1 on your LAN…
I promise I'll change that…I promise.
I want to try a different OpenVPN client for Android. The other one I want to try is "Open VPN for Android". It is asking for a PKCS#12 file a .pfx or a .p12 extension. Any clue where I download that from? I tried the client export for OpenVPN Connect as well as for Android. Neither seem to satisfy what this app is looking for...
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Seems that I have fixed it. I went in to the APN settings on my phone.
IPv6 was selected. I changed it to IPv4. Works perfectly now.
WOW….how frustrating this has been! Thanks to all for the assistance.
I hope changing that setting doesn't have other unintended consequences.
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Hmmm. Let me just tuck that bit of knowledge away fro future use.
I have IPV6 in my Openvpn tunnel also, so I guess if it defaulted to IPV6 it wouldn't matter.
How about your pfsense? Pure IPV4?
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Hmmm. Let me just tuck that bit of knowledge away fro future use.
I have IPV6 in my Openvpn tunnel also, so I guess if it defaulted to IPV6 it wouldn't matter.
How about your pfsense? Pure IPV4?
This likely won't surprise you, but I don't know about IPv6, other than the IP addresses are crazy long and complicated.
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I could teach you - It has practical uses, no matter what you may have heard.
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I could teach you - It has practical uses, no matter what you may have heard.
I'd love to learn more about it, and I'm sure it does. As I understand it, it's just the next evolution of networking as networks grow larger.
I really appreciate your help, and would love to learn anything you have to say on the subject.
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Do the training course at hurricane: https://ipv6.he.net/certification/
Now that they have free DNS and tunnels, all you will really need to do to get through it is get a tunnel up (ezpz on pfSense) and get a web server running on IPv6.
