[arm-allstar] OpenVPN Autostart and VPN Provider

[David McGough]

Hi Dave,

Yes, OpenVPN is already installed in BBB and RPi2 in the image files from
the hamvoip.org website....So, from a software prospective you're "ready
to rumble," so to speak. Hihi.

The simplest way to debug OpenVPN is to run it from the command prompt and 
look at the info dumped to the screen. To do this, this is the 
procedure:

1) Login to your board as user "root"

2) cd /etc/openvpn

3) openvpn --config client.conf

4) Now, you should see various info about the connection in progress. If 
   you do NOT see any output, comment out any "log" statements in the 
   client.conf config file with a leading '#' symbol, like:
   #log /tmp/openvpn-client.log

5) ....When you want to exit, type: ctrl-c 


If you're not able to interpret the output, copy-and-paste into a private 
e-mail to me and I'll try to help.

BTW, I added OpenVPN because it's such a useful tool. And, at my day job,
I manage hundreds of VPN tunnels like this to every corner of the Earth.

73, David KB4FXC


On Tue, 28 Apr 2015, David Kavanagh wrote:

> Hi Group/Bob
> 
> I too am trying to get OpenVPN up and running on my new Pi2 Allstar node, however after reading thru the steps both the OpenVPN website (where I started getting a little lost as apparently its already installed on the node from the image) and thru Bob's website, I am still unable to get it working.
> 
> When I copy the contents to the client.conf file and change the manager to "enable" - after a reboot - the ifconfig still displays the local IP and loopback IP address details.
> 
> There is no Tunnel or the like. My external IP address still resolves as my own
> 
> Any thoughts/comments/suggestions
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
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