Re (3): error message from openvpn postmortem.

2010-12-06 Thread peasthope
From my original message. Nothing obvious, but shouldn't traceroute get a route? From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:39:20 -0700 That does look suspicious. But to me it looks suspiciously like packets are getting dropped by a firewall and you already checked that

Re: Re (3): error message from openvpn postmortem.

2010-12-06 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: That does look suspicious. But to me it looks suspiciously like packets are getting dropped by a firewall and you already checked that they weren't. * November 15, about 13:30 hrs my ISP inadvertently disconnected the cable. I had not suspected

State of interfaces ; was Re (3): error message from openvpn.

2010-11-29 Thread peasthope
Progress. From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:39:20 -0700 You might crank up the verbosity of the openvpn logging and see if it logs something interesting. r...@dalton:~# grep verb /etc/openvpn/my* verb 9 r...@dalton:~# grep tun0 /var/log/syslog r...@dalton:~# grep

Re (2): error message from openvpn.

2010-11-28 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:24:33 -0700 I would look to see that the ports match up on both sides of the OpenVPN connection. Just checked /etc/openvpn/myvpn.conf again. Yes, both ends aim for dev tun, udp 1194. I would look that it is allowed through the

Re: Re (2): error message from openvpn.

2010-11-28 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I would look to see that the ports match up on both sides of the OpenVPN connection. Just checked /etc/openvpn/myvpn.conf again. Yes, both ends aim for dev tun, udp 1194. Good. I would look that it is allowed through the firewall. I

Re (3): error message from openvpn.

2010-11-28 Thread peasthope
From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:39:20 -0700 ... if it were configured to log rejects to the syslog then you should see logging of anything shorewall is rejecting to ... /var/log/kern.log syslog vs. kern.log? In any case, yes, kern.log records that Shorewall is

error message from openvpn.

2010-11-27 Thread peasthope
Folk, An OpenVPN tunnel is failing and this message is in /var/log/syslog. Nov 27 16:17:07 joule ovpn-myvpn[1827]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection refused (code=111) Google finds references to some of the words but nothing explains the meaning of ECONNREFUSED or of (code=111). Any

Re: error message from openvpn.

2010-11-27 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: An OpenVPN tunnel is failing and this message is in /var/log/syslog. Nov 27 16:17:07 joule ovpn-myvpn[1827]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection refused (code=111) Google finds references to some of the words but nothing explains the meaning of ECONNREFUSED or of