How tro setup OpenVPN for a wireless connection

lautarob

Hi, I am new to OpenVPN.
I already set my connection to use the VPN on a wired network. However, where I am now, I have no ethernet connection but WIFI.

Where can I found information on how to set up a new connection using wireless (WIFI) instead of an ethernet connection?

My OpenVPN wired connection seems to be working, but it says "no internet connection" (as expected). It is possible to modify it or I need a new connection?

Thanks!

TinCanTech

Openvpn will work with any network connection, Wifi or ethernet.

What do you actually mean and what are you trying to do/use ?

lautarob

Thanks and sorry for not replying earlier. I thought this site will notify me by e-mail about any reply and that had not happened (my fault, I should have checked directly. Please forgive me about this).

The way I set up my OpenVPN connection was following a set of instructions I received from my IT guy. They were done for setting an Ethernet connection. I followed that instruction an after I managed to properly install the client.ovpn file the VPN seems to be working (I can see a green light on the icon and the security padlock sign on it).

Now, since I have no Ethernet connection available, my question was how can derive (transform or whatever is appropriate to do) from that existing ethernet VPN connection that seems to be working, to my active WIFI connection.

Alternatively, If you can provide some guidelines on how I can set up the same connection using the same client.ovpn file but using a WIFI connection instead of an Ethernet one it would be of great as well.

Just in case it helps, follows the last lines in the most recent log file: (For security reasons, I change to XX.XXX.XXX.XXX the actual IP address and port number at the start and the end)

Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.X.X.X/255.255.255.0 I=27 HWADDR=XX:xx:XX:XX:XX:XX
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 OpenVPN ROUTE: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route option and no default was specified by either --route-gateway or --ifconfig options
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 OpenVPN ROUTE: failed to parse/resolve route for host/network: 192.168.1.0
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 open_tun
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 TAP-WIN32 device [NETGEAR-VPN] opened: \\.\Global\{4B40E405-F575-49EA-97D1-B2C6050043EA}.tap
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 TAP-Windows Driver Version 9.24 
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=586918 TAP-Windows MTU=1500
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=591992 Successful ARP Flush on interface [15] {4B40E405-F575-49EA-97D1-B2C6050043EA}
Sat Apr 11 08:20:02 2020 us=674571 Extracted DHCP router address: 192.XXX.X.1
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 TEST ROUTES: 1/1 succeeded len=1 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1586607607,ADD_ROUTES,,,,,,
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 192.168.1.1 MASK 255.255.255.0 192.XXX.X.1
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 ROUTE: route addition failed using service: The parameter is incorrect.   [status=87 if_index=15]
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 Route addition via service failed
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 Initialization Sequence Completed
Sat Apr 11 08:20:07 2020 us=26737 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1586607607,CONNECTED,SUCCESS,,XX.XXX.XXX.XXX,XXXXX,,

TinCanTech

lautarob wrote sorry for not replying earlier

No problem ..

lautarob wrote Now, since I have no Ethernet connection available, my question was how can derive (transform or whatever is appropriate to do) from that existing ethernet VPN connection that seems to be working, to my active WIFI connection

You do not need to do anything for openvpn to work over wifi or ethernet, it is not affected by your network connection.

lautarob wrote The way I set up my OpenVPN connection was following a set of instructions I received from my IT guy

You will need to speak with him again.

lautarob

Thanks Tim. He is not available for the next two weeks. Can you just give a hint or point to technical info where I can found how to make the change?. As I said, what I did was to create a new Ethernet connection, change its name to OpenVPN as instructed and that was it. Then, start OpenVPN-client and point to the client.ovpn file. After that, said Ethernet connection (my VPN connection) seems to be working (but with no internet service). I guess this is just a matter to make a small change in the settings, but I have no clue as to where starts it.

Best,

Lautaro

TinCanTech

The best place to start is the Howto.