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Hi everyone!

Since I am at a boarding school, I can´t connect anymore to my VPN... The provider of my VPN set my VPN up so that it should even work from my boarding school, but it somehow doesn´t.... anyways, here the log:

Wed Oct 05 20:20:26 2011 OpenVPN 2.2.1 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] built on Jul 1 2011
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 LZO compression initialized
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1544 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1544 D:1450 EF:44 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '69109d17'
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'c0103fa8'
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 Attempting to establish TCP connection with XXXXXXXXXXX:443
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 TCP connection established with XXXXXXXXXXX:443
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:30 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: XXXXXXXXXXX:443
Wed Oct 05 20:20:52 2011 Connection reset, restarting [-1]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:52 2011 TCP/UDP: Closing socket
Wed Oct 05 20:20:52 2011 SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting
Wed Oct 05 20:20:52 2011 Restart pause, 5 second(s)
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Re-using SSL/TLS context
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 LZO compression initialized
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1544 D:140 EF:40 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1544 D:1450 EF:44 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '69109d17'
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'c0103fa8'
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 Attempting to establish TCP connection with xxxxxxxxxxxx:443
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 TCP connection established with XXXXXXXXXXXX:443
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link local: [undef]
Wed Oct 05 20:20:57 2011 TCPv4_CLIENT link remote: XXXXXXXXXXXX:443
Wed Oct 05 20:21:18 2011 Connection reset, restarting [-1]
Wed Oct 05 20:21:18 2011 TCP/UDP: Closing socket


And here my .ovpn config:

client
dev tun
auth-user-pass
proto tcp
remote XXXXXXXXXXX 443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
comp-lzo
ca nl2.crt
verb 3


I hope you can help me, thanks in advance!

Jodokus

the connection is reset after 21 seconds - without seeing the corresponding server log it is impossible to tell what is going on. There is, however, a fair chance that somebody at your boarding school decided to sniff out non-HTTPS traffic on port 443 and block it.
OpenVPN does not disguise itself from routers/firewalls.

I didn´t know that there are schools with a clever IT staff -.-.

Thanks for your answer, even if I hope it is not like you said...

Slow performance is one of the most difficult problems to troubleshoot.

Wow, this problem is new to me.......

Last time I had similar problem. Another tips which might be useful : Disable any other network adapters on the machine that you are not using and try your connection again.

contact your network host and ask them to give you an authentic password if you need one. I had a problem connecting to my VPN and I was successful by contacting the administrator.

Did NickTrouw suggestion work? sounds like something to troubleshoot.

Looks like this could be caused by a variety of different problems

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