Problems sustaining VPN tunnel
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:25 am
Hi,
Not sure if this is the correct place to post or not so apologies if it's not. I've recently reconfigured my raspberry pi as an Open VPN server and following a few hiccups along the way have it working (albeit not quite as expected). When I run OpenVPN server.conf from the raspberry pi terminal the terminal window freezes and I'm unable to input any command other than Ctl+C to kill it. At this point though my devices are able to connect to the vpn successfully and access both the internet and internal network. If I press ctl+c this terminates OpenVPN and tunnel drops. The same also happens if I close the ssh session. I've looked at the openvpn.log and openvpn-status and it looks as though everything is running as should be - except the application is hanging in terminal window until such time as I either kill the ssh session or interrupt the openvpn process. I'm a bit confused as to why this would be happening and wondered if anyone else had seen this issue or could advise me on what other steps I could take to resolve - as I'm so close to it working!
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Regards
Bill.
Not sure if this is the correct place to post or not so apologies if it's not. I've recently reconfigured my raspberry pi as an Open VPN server and following a few hiccups along the way have it working (albeit not quite as expected). When I run OpenVPN server.conf from the raspberry pi terminal the terminal window freezes and I'm unable to input any command other than Ctl+C to kill it. At this point though my devices are able to connect to the vpn successfully and access both the internet and internal network. If I press ctl+c this terminates OpenVPN and tunnel drops. The same also happens if I close the ssh session. I've looked at the openvpn.log and openvpn-status and it looks as though everything is running as should be - except the application is hanging in terminal window until such time as I either kill the ssh session or interrupt the openvpn process. I'm a bit confused as to why this would be happening and wondered if anyone else had seen this issue or could advise me on what other steps I could take to resolve - as I'm so close to it working!
Any advice would be gratefully received.
Regards
Bill.