[arm-allstar] HamVOIP & OpenVPN

[David McGough]

Hi Rob,

Welcome to the arm-allstar list.

hamvoip-openvpn was custom packaged by me, based on openvpn 2.5 from 
git. My last package update was almost a year, but includes most recently
added openvpn capabilities.  It also includes the tunnelblick 
xor obfuscater patches, which are needed when connecting to/through some 
providers.

HamVoIP maintains our own arch linux package repositories, periodically 
pulling in updates from the upstream "master" repositories. This was done 
for stability and in practice has worked very well. That's the reason why 
the default openvpn version is 2.3.9-2.

Note also there is a hamvoip-wireguard package, which includes all the 
related wireguard VPN tools.


73, David KB4FXC


On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, "Rob Seaman via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> 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...
> VK6LD
> 
> 
> 
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