one last hurdle, no internet when i connect client

loady

I really do not know a lot about all of this, i have accomplished what i have done thus far by a lot of reading and quite a bit of guidance, however my help seems to have dried up so here i am.

I setup a repeater a spare N66u router running dd-wrt as a repeater, have it running in client mode, it is connected to my router and i have wifi all over the house, i also have openvpn running on it and it works, i can access the router remotley, however, no matter what device i am using the client on to connect to the openvpn server i lose internet connectivity on that device, i have tried several firewalls rules that make no difference, i cant ping 8.8.8.8 when connected to openvpn.

I dont really know what else i can say to give you more info as i know little of this and have managed to get this far in a week, can i provide some form of log or diags ?

TinCanTech

Unless you need it, you should remove all reference to --redirect-gateway and try again.

Please see:
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22603#p68963

loady

The guide I followed to setup repeater or openvpn said that I need to enable redirect gateway, maybe because of the setup I have ?

TinCanTech

Please start here:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HOWTO

loady

Ok, this is beyond my remit, my knowledge is very limited and i do not understand firewall rules at all which is more than likely the crux of my problem.

TinCanTech

Now is the time to start learning ...

loady

not really, i am not going to invest all that time on top of my working day just to get an internet connection on my setup...easier to throw cash at it i suppose, i would be a fool not to try to get help from a relevant 'help' forum first though.

Thanks.

TinCanTech

If you don't read the documentation, at least the howto, then how are you going to know what to do ?

If you want to throw money at it then I'll take some off you .. but here is the problem:

You are either going to have to read the instructions I send you ..
May as well read the HOWTO for free.
Or, you will have to grant me root access to your server ..
That's just a bad idea in all respects.

But hey, we can just delete the Howto and then everybody will have to pay for knowledge.
And I will be rich as thieves .. :mrgreen:

loady

Yes agreed, reading the how-to is not the issue, it's all the learning of the jargon within that I need to understand to be able to make any sense of it..however, I will look

loady

I. Was previously using the same router with Asus Merlin running on it, all I need to do was set and user/pass and them export the ovpn file and add it to the client..it worked flawlessly, however, as I am now having to use the router as a repeater, openvpn is disabled in repeater mode hence why I installed DD-wrt but that doesn't have this easy to use setup like it does on Asus Merlin, I followed a guide and lots of help to create all the certs and add them to openvpn and got it working fine, just now I have no internet on the device I am connected to the openvpn server.

TinCanTech

As I pointed out in my very first answer to you

TinCanTech wrote Unless you need it, you should remove all reference to --redirect-gateway and try again.

Please see:
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=22603#p68963

loady

And I said that the guide I followed to setup openvpn in DD-wrt said I need to enable it, so giving what you just said, do I just unchecked the radio button for 'redirect gsteway', apply and reboot and see what happens

loady

I will also endeavour to post the info required.

I just went into VPN on router and disabled redirect gateway on its settings page, now the reverse happens, the client says it's connected but I can't access the router but the internet works on the device I'm running the client on.

genlee

Loady: Your problem is with DNS. When you are connected to VPN you are not getting a valid DNS.

Here is a chart that can help you debug your OpenVPN configuration:

http://www.ircpimps.org/clientlan.png

loady

I saw that chart, I can't answer the questions it asks, I am trying to post.up the required info as per the how-to, I can't find the opvn conf file, I asked on ddwrt forum but not had a reply yet

genlee

If you are running Linux or BSD the OpenVPN Server Configuration file location is: /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf

Your client file will be XXXXX.ovpn. The location of the file depends on your the client software you are using and the OS you are using. Just do a search on your system for ovpn and you should find it.

loady

genlee wrote If you are running Linux or BSD the OpenVPN Server Configuration file location is: /etc/openvpn/server/server.conf

Your client file will be XXXXX.ovpn. The location of the file depends on your the client software you are using and the OS you are using. Just do a search on your system for ovpn and you should find it.

Not the CLIENT file, the SERVER conf file, from the server running on the openvpn server on my router running running dd-wrt, i need the info from that for the good people here to view