bind or lport not working. windows 7 64bit

majortom1981

The problem i am having is that when i try lport 1194,bind or any other commands like that the log shows openvnp client trying to connect going out on port 1194 but windows 7 still uses a randomly assigned port.

This is with nobind taken out of the config file. my client config is

client
proto udp
lport 1194
resolv-retry 20
keepalive 10 120
mute-replay-warnings
ns-cert-type server
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 2
persist-key
persist-tun
verb 1
tls-exit
dev tun0
cert untangle-vpn/xx-public-library-tom.crt
key untangle-vpn/xx-public-library-tom.key
ca untangle-vpn/xx-public-library-ca.crt

remote xx.xx.xx.xx 1194

maikcat

hi there,

noticed that you are using untangle..

did you install the openvpn installer from openvpn.net or
you used the one that untangle gives?

which version of untangle you are using?

michael.

majortom1981

We used the installer for the client BUT i have upgraded the client on the windows 7 64bit machine to the latest openvpn client which is the release canidate. My pfsense firewall that is at the other end reports the openvpn client connecting with the random port and not the port i am assigning the openvpnclient.

maikcat

hi there,

do you have a router perfoming NAT in front of your client?

Michael.

janjust

I just checked on my win7 64bit box that if I use 'lport 12000' and connect to a VPN server that the source port is indeed 12000. Use wireshark to view the traffic from the win7 box to the server.
If there's another router in between the source port will get altered by that router.

majortom1981

janjust wroteI just checked on my win7 64bit box that if I use 'lport 12000' and connect to a VPN server that the source port is indeed 12000. Use wireshark to view the traffic from the win7 box to the server.
If there's another router in between the source port will get altered by that router.

Oh ok that explains it. Thanks