Can't find the solution to this anywere. Hope you can!

[darrenjames]

Hi guys,

I'm using OpenVPN atm. It works great apart from one annoying thing. Once I connect, In my network and sharing centre in W7 it wont let me Identify the Network "Unidentified Network" and "No Internet Access"
And a big red X in the connectivity Line
Although I believe the VPN is working as my VPN IP is picked up on IPChecker Websites etc I'm having problems with certain 3rd party Programs recodnising that I'm Online because of this.
The VPN is connecting through a TAP-Win32 Adapter V9 and I'm using the Latest v2.2.2 OpenVPN

Hope you can help,

Thanks

[darrenjames]

Hi I'm not sure sorry. Its Giganews I'm with.

Heres the config file:


client
dev tun
proto udp
remote uk1.vpn.giganews.com 443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
persist-remote-ip
ca ca.vyprvpn.com.crt
tls-remote uk1.vpn.giganews.com
auth-user-pass
comp-lzo
verb 3
auth SHA256
cipher AES-256-CBC
keysize 256
tls-cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES256-SHA

[darrenjames]

Btw If I use my Internet Connections Default gateway as the Gateway for TAP-Win32 Adapter V9, The problem goes away. But would my VPN be less secure or?

[Mimiko]

In my network and sharing centre in W7 it wont let me Identify the Network "Unidentified Network" and "No Internet Access"

For which connection?

But would my VPN be less secure or?

Changing the gateway to your local router has nothing to do with security. It's just the traffic will go thru the local internet, not thru tunnel, even that the OpenVPN is configured with traffic redirect, as I can understan.

[darrenjames]

For the OpenVPN connection - sorry my quotes not working atm

[Mimiko]

For the OpenVPN connection

Then the tunnel i just not connected to internet, ie no redirect-gateway.

[darrenjames]

Ah ok - how do I go about fixing this? A while ago I tried adding that line or similar one to one of my providers opn server config file but it didn't stop the problem

[Mimiko]

You can't. Only VPN providers can do it.

[darrenjames]

Oh ok strange, why would giganews do this? They are determined its a problem on my end but every protocol apart from OpenVPN works flawless

[soavejas]

I am having a very similar problem and was hoping for a solution. Thank you for the post.

[Mimiko]

There is no problem that the OpenVPN interface is detected as "undetermined". If the VPN is working as expected than it is ok.

[annie]

I am thankful to your post and have benefited a lot and understanding too.