OpenVPN server behind a DD-WRT router. Help a newbie! :)

Gnikf

I'm a new to this.
I followed this tutorial and did everything as described there:
http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/78-static-key-mini-howto.html

The openVPN server is on a Windows 7 PC behind a DD-WRT router.
I believe my settings are alright, but the routing and firewalls are not allowing the client to connect.

1. First I don't know how to setup the routing of the router to the PC
here is what i've got

Not even sure if that's the correct place to set the routing, but couldn't find better.

2. How do I allow those incoming connections in the windows 7 firewall?

mwandelaar

You have to configure an inbound port where the clients will connect to.
This is configured in the tab "Application and Gaming" where you will tell the router to send incoming packets to, say, port 1194 to an internal machine on ip <your local server-ip> port 1194

I'm sorry i cannot help you with the windows-firewall. Maybe google or some else

Gnikf

Thank you buddy I managed to do the router and the windows firewall.

Other problem appeared though. When i start the OpenVPN server it outputs this:

Mon Mar 18 14:11:32 2013 OpenVPN 2.3.0 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [IPv6] built on Feb 14 2013
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 open_tun, tt->ipv6=0
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \\.\Global\{editedout}.tap
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 Notified TAP-Windows driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.8.0.1/255.255.255.252 on interface {editedout} [DHCP-serv: 10.8.0.2, lease-time: 31536000]
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 Successful ARP Flush on interface [33] {editedout}
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]
Mon Mar 18 14:11:33 2013 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]

and hangs on connecting forever
here are the contents of my server.ovpn file in the config folder:

dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
secret static.key
comp-lzo
keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem
persist-tun
persist-key

mwandelaar

Your server isn't hanging, it's waiting for a connection.
There's a small problem though, as you didn't tell the server on which port to listen, it ain't listening anywhere.

Please add a port in your config, like:

port 1194

and try again