[arm-allstar] HamVOIP & OpenVPN

[Rob Seaman]

Hi All,

I'm a long-time reader on the HamVOIP mailing list.

This is probably my first post, but I was interested in setting up OpenVPN with HamVOIP, however am a complete novice with OpenVPN.

I was trying to get it to work with the default OpenVPN package (Vers 2.3.9-2) in HamVOIP on one of my test nodes, but was having some trouble with TLS and the tls-crypt key not being recognised. (It was wanting tls-auth).

I looked through plenty of old messages on this mailing list and the HamVOIP website, but didn't have much success getting OpenVPN to run.  I had no troubles setting up OpenVPN with Win10 and getting it to connect to the server.

Interestingly, I did some reading on other Archlinux related websites and found the most current OpenVPN package is 2.4.9-2. From what I read, 2.3.9-2 isn't compatible with tls-crypt or .ovpn configs.  I tried upgrading to 2.4.9-2 with pacman, but still remained at 2.3.9-2, not sure why, but probably related to me being a complete novice.

Whilst reading and looking around, I came across a brief mention of a package called "hamvoip-openvpn".  I installed this package using pacman and it worked straight away connecting to the server end, as easily as Win10.

Afterwards, I went back to do some further looking into the hamvoip-openvpn package and found almost no mention of it anywhere on my searches.  This got me wondering, with so little reference to it, if the hamvoip-openvpn package is the "real deal" or is it some sort of trojan horse/malware software?

Also, did I miss something with not being able to upgrade the OpenVPN package to 2.4.9-2 somewhere, as it keeps giving 2.3.9-2 on any sort of reinstall or update?

Cheers,

Rob...
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