[arm-allstar] OpenVPN help

[Mike Sullivan]

What OS are you running the VPN on? Do you have port forwarding set up on
the VPN?

I use Ubuntu with OVPN for a couple nodes, think I finally have the “magic
code” figured out.

Mike

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 21:48 "Bryan St Clair via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> For those using openvpn (on a ATT connection) I have a question.
>
> I am helping someone who has a node on a ATT Netgear device.  It is online
> and was able to make outgoing connections.   We were not able to get ATT to
> allow incoming connections so we setup a openvpn connection and have it
> running.  The new IP is registering and we are on port 4570, showing
> correct port id on both host and client-side DNS queries.
>
> Problem is, I reboot the node, it starts the VPN, connects and registers.
> Seems it take about 30 seconds before an outgoing connection can be made,
> however, an hour later, no incoming connection can be established.
>
> (node numbers as example, all are public nodes)
>
> node 1234 can connect to 9876.
> node 1234 is on the vpn, node 9876 is not on a vpn, different networks.
> node 9876 can not connect 1234, gets the following messages:
>
> chan_iax2.c:4099 __auto_congest: Auto-congesting call due to slow response
>
> no incoming connection for any source can get into node 1234. However
> outgoing from 1234 it seems to be fine.
>
> I don't use vpns often in allstar, is their any diag steps to ensure the
> 4570 port is getting back to the node? I even tried to ssh directly to in
> ove the vpn and get no response to the login attempt.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> Bryan
> K6CBR
> bryan at k6cbr.us
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