Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

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Thoma
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Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by Thoma » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:43 pm

Hello,

My ISP now offers IPv6 connectivity.
I tried to connect with my current configuration file.
And it still works fine on IPv4.
However, it does not work on IPv6.

netstat does not show any listening port on udp6 :(

How do I change my configuration file below to be able to connect on IPv4 and IPv6?

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proto udp
port 1194
dev tun
ca server/keys/ca.crt
cert server/keys/server.crt
key server/keys/server.key  # This file should be kept secret
dh server/keys/dh2048.pem
tls-auth server/keys/ta.key 0
key-direction 0
cipher AES-256-CBC
ifconfig-pool-persist server/ipp.txt

server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.xxx.254"
push "route 192.168.xxx.0 255.255.255.0"
keepalive 10 120
client-to-client

user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
comp-lzo
tls-version-min 1.2

verb 6

log-append  /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log
status /var/log/openvpn/openvpn-status.log
Thanks in advance for your help

Thoma

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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by TinCanTech » Sun Aug 07, 2022 3:57 pm

You will need --proto udp6 and then to configure your network to pass UDPv6 packets to your server.

Thoma
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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by Thoma » Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:12 pm

Hi TinCanTech,

If I replace proto udp with proto udp6 then it works with IPv6 but, and this is normal, no longer with IPv4.
Is there a way to make both (IPv4 and IPv6) work together?

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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by TinCanTech » Sun Aug 07, 2022 5:41 pm

Thoma wrote:
Sun Aug 07, 2022 4:12 pm
Is there a way to make both (IPv4 and IPv6) work together?
Define together ..

Cutting to the chase: No.

Thoma
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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by Thoma » Sun Aug 07, 2022 6:01 pm

What I mean by Together is listening on IPv4 side and also on IPv6 side.

What I expect from the command:

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netstat --numeric-ports -lu | grep 1194
is:

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udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:1194            0.0.0.0:*
udp6       0      0 [::]:1194               [::]:*
but so far I can only get one or the other.

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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by TinCanTech » Sun Aug 07, 2022 11:27 pm

Experiment with multiple server instances but, at this time, OpenVPN does not do V4 and v6 simultaneously

Thoma
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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by Thoma » Mon Aug 08, 2022 7:56 am

Ugh! Bad luck...

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Re: Unable to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 at same time

Post by TinCanTech » Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:07 pm

It turns out that I am wrong. :oops:

OpenVPN can use IPv6 and IPv4 on one server instance. All you need is --proto udp6

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