ovpn-client issue

RouterOS General
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Where to start, I guess.

I’ve tried with both a 493 and 1100. No luck connecting to the ovpn server at all.

I’m able to connect no problem using openvpn software on pc (Configuration/settings are confirmed good and server is UP.) Also all is reachable via icmp. i’m trying to connect to a ovpn server from vpngate.net for awesome localized browsing (but trying to do it via tunnel so i’m not disconnecting other things like work. So I intend to probably set some static routes to point certain traffic at the endpoint. (Though i’m open to ideas here, not here yet..)

All I get from system log is ovpn-out1: initializing, connecting - terminating disconnected. Not particularily helpful for debugging. I was a few versions behind but i’ve updated to current release candidates (believe i was 5.9 mipsbe. tried 6.13 and 6.33 and 6.30 and 6.33 powerpc on the 1100)

Still no luck.
For the curious:

/interface ovpn-client
add certificate=cert1.txt_0 cipher=aes128 connect-to=114.145.12.187 \
    mac-address=02:21:A9:65:D9:1E name=ovpn-out1 password=vpn port=1718 user=\
    vpn
/ip ipsec proposal
set [ find default=yes ] enc-algorithms=aes-128-cbc

Of the countless pptp and l2tp i’ve setup and used, its my first try at ovpn so maybe i’m doing something blatantly wrong; but reviewing guides and other forum topics on similar circumstance i can’t readily find a solution.. Any takers?

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You’re not specifying a profile so you’re getting the default which may not have encryption enabled. I’d create a specific profile for the connection.

Also, udp, compression and tls aren’t supported yet so if your server requires any of them, it won’t work.

Post your known working pc config file (without sensitive info of course).

3

Your right, I did use the default profile (Though I modified it to be as flexible as possible aka ok with encryption but not a requirement etc.)

dev tun
proto udp
remote host port
cipher AES-128-CBC
auth SHA1
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
client
verb 3

I wasn’t aware it didn’t support UDP, That could be my problem.. Thanks.