[Closed] Connection issue VPNme.org

[CrazyPhil]

Hello,

I have been playing with a (Raspian distro) Raspberry Pi for a while and and set it up to use VPN, unfortunately I keep on getting issues keeping and getting connected to the VPN.

I know my setup is right because it does work from time to time, but when it doesn't I can't figure out why...

An ifconfig shows this, but no traffic is passing through tun0:

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:27:eb:54:d3:ba
inet addr:192.168.0.19 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1955 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1607 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:306023 (298.8 KiB) TX bytes:1037299 (1012.9 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1512 (1.4 KiB) TX bytes:1512 (1.4 KiB)

tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:xx.xxx.123.126 P-t-P:xx.xxx.123.125 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

So I've tried routing:

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sudo route add default gw xx.xxx.123.126 tun0

It enters the line, but no change in terms of traffic..
I also tried to ping the P-t-P address, and it fails.


Here's the log at boot:

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Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: OpenVPN 2.2.1 arm-linux-gnueabihf [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [PF_INET6] [IPv6 payload 20110424-2 (2.2RC2)] built on Jun 15 2013
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: WARNING: file 'userpass.txt' is group or others accessible
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: WARNING: file '555555.key' is group or others accessible
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: WARNING: file 'ta.key' is group or others accessible
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: Control Channel Authentication: using 'ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
Oct 5 12:38:06 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2205]: LZO compression initialized
Oct 5 12:38:07 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Oct 5 12:38:07 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]xxx.xx.189.5:1194
Oct 5 12:38:07 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Oct 5 12:38:08 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: [us-east.vpnme.com] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]xxx.xx.189.5:1194
Oct 5 12:38:10 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Oct 5 12:38:10 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Oct 5 12:38:10 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 xx.xxx.123.126 pointopoint xx.xxx.123.125 mtu 1500
Oct 5 12:38:10 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2206]: /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf tun0 1500 1558 xx.xxx.123.126 64.156.123.125 init
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing.
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: Using interface tun0/00:00:00:00:00:00 with driver <tun> (version: 1.6)
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: Initialization complete, link beat detected.
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action tun0 up'.
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: client: Ignoring unknown interface tun0=tun0.
Oct 5 12:38:11 raspberrypi ifplugd(tun0)[2364]: Program executed successfully.
Oct 5 12:38:12 raspberrypi ntpd[2143]: Listen normally on 3 tun0 xx.xxx.123.126 UDP 123
Oct 5 12:38:12 raspberrypi ntpd[2143]: peers refreshed

Iptables -L gives me this:

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Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

When I type route:

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Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
unknown.Level3. * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tun0
192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0

As I said, sometimes It works (rarely) and most of time it doesn't. I cannot figure out where the connection is not initializing.

Any ideas?

THX!

[CrazyPhil]

I don't have server logs since it isn't my server...however here is my conf file.

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# VPNme config
client
remote us-east.vpnme.com 1194 udp
cipher aes-128-cbc
persist-key
auth-user-pass userpass.txt
tls-client
ns-cert-type server
pull
# tun-ipv6
redirect-gateway def1
persist-tun
dev tun
nobind
mute-replay-warnings
comp-lzo no
ca vpnme.crt
cert 555555.crt
key 555555.key
tls-auth ta.key
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

I've only been using Debian/Linux for a few weeks so this is all new to me, my knowledge is somewhat limited of what else controls the routes and ethernet connections.

Thanks,

CP

[CrazyPhil]

If only they ever replied to my emails! lol....

[CrazyPhil]

Well I give up, I do not recommend VPNMe.org as a vpn provider, they offer zero support for the their products. I sent four emails over a 2 month span in an attempt to resolve this. The last reply was:

Thanks for the detailed report. I don't see anything wrong on your end and we're looking into what may be causing your issues.
We appreciate your patience and will get back to you soon.

And that was Oct 13th.....

[CrazyPhil]

I got this:

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Nov 24 17:58:25 raspberrypi ovpn-client[4813]: WARNING: 'dev-type' is used inconsistently, local='dev-type tap', remote='dev-type tun'
Nov 24 17:58:25 raspberrypi ovpn-client[4813]: WARNING: 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1590', remote='link-mtu 1558'
Nov 24 17:58:25 raspberrypi ovpn-client[4813]: WARNING: 'tun-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='tun-mtu 1532', remote='tun-mtu 1500'

And it fails:

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Nov 24 17:56:57 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2225]: TUN/TAP device tap0 opened
Nov 24 17:56:57 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2225]: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Nov 24 17:56:57 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2225]: /sbin/ifconfig tap0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mtu 1500 broadcast 255.255.255.254
Nov 24 17:56:57 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2225]: Linux ifconfig failed: external program exited with error status: 1
Nov 24 17:56:57 raspberrypi ovpn-client[2225]: Exiting

[CrazyPhil]

Where would I change it to tun?