Hi Kell,
Looks like something is interfering with your connection attempt to TCP/1194. Crappy firewall or crappy OS maybe? But it indeed for sure looks like it is something outside of our software. Fix that and we can talk. It's easy to just come in and kick the software but there are often very many other factors involved. Do some basic network troubleshooting before you try to blame. And you'll probably get better results without the negative attitude.
BTW TCP for openvpn is a bad idea. We did not tell you to use TCP. We specifically inform people to use UDP. Whoever told you to set it up that way may have a poor understanding of openvpn, so please don't listen to them. If you're interested to learn look into the TCP Meltdown phenomenon.
You don't seem to understand the difference between retries and crashes. You did not show any logs of a crash. The openvpn software retries when confronted with errors.
"Our staff" created very nice client creation software suites for
OpenVPN Cloud and
Access Server. But you are not using either. Please try to learn something about what you are looking at before you post comments on Internet forums with immediate assumptions.
No, we certainly cannot explain your "Unknown Error". We don't even have any information about where this client is running. Unfortunately we cannot read minds so we need relevant information to provide a diagnosis. Maybe try with
--verb 4 on the client? Maybe also try a
tcpdump(8) to see if your packets are even getting out? If they are, maybe check and share your logs on your pfsense router?
Sorry Kell but we can't help you unless you provide relevant information and stop immediately assuming our program is at fault. Keep in mind that OpenVPN software is provided as-is as an open source project and it is implemented by the manufacturer of the device or software you're using that it comes embedded into. We do not control how they implement it. And the implementation may be at fault.
regards, rob0
[post edited to remove some bad words]
