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[luxor]

Hello, can you please help me to install openvpn on openpli 6.2 ?
 

I probably succeeded because I can see the openvpn bin file in /etc/init.d but now I don't know how to go on.

My vpn provider is nordvpn

[Pike_Bishop]

Hi,

 

you need first the directory /etc/openvpn on your box - if it doesn't exists create it.

then you  need the server files from nordvpn as example "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp" - put this file in your directory /etc/openvpn (maybe you must rename it  to "openvpn.conf"

but here it was enough to renamed it to "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp.conf" and it works.

 

you need also a second file in /etc/openvpn with name "auth.txt", in this file you must write your account dates from nordvpn in two lines

first line -> your login name (email)

second line -> your password

 

and at last you must edit the "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp.conf" respectivlely "openvpn.conf"  in fact the line with auth-user-pass

to auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/auth.txt , and then reboot your box.

openvpn must running (autostart) and if you create or edit files do this only with a linux compatible editor as example with notepad++

- that's all

 

if you want it comfortablier then google for the plugin nordvpnconnector - with this plugin you can change the servers

with your remotecontrol on your box directly and more.

 

 

regards

Biki3 

Edited by Biki3, 13 October 2018 - 00:47.

[luxor]

Hi,

 

you need first the directory /etc/openvpn on your box - if it doesn't exists create it.

then you  need the server files from nordvpn as example "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp" - put this file in your directory /etc/openvpn (maybe you must rename it  to "openvpn.conf"

but here it was enough to renamed it to "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp.conf" and it works.

 

you need also a second file in /etc/openvpn with name "auth.txt", in this file you must write your account dates from nordvpn in two lines

first line -> your login name (email)

second line -> your password

 

and at last you must edit the "de421.nordvpn.com.tcp.conf" respectivlely "openvpn.conf"  in fact the line with auth-user-pass

to auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/auth.txt , and then reboot your box.

openvpn must running (autostart) and if you create or edit files do this only with a linux compatible editor as example with notepad++

- that's all

 

if you want it comfortablier then google for the plugin nordvpnconnector - with this plugin you can change the servers

with your remotecontrol on your box directly and more.

 

 

regards

Biki3 

 

Thanks. I've tried, at the beginning it has partly worked but the problem is that when I rebooted the box I lost the vpn ip.

I tried to use this sintax

/etc/init.d/openvpn start  or

update-rc.d openvpn defaults

 

but there is somenthing strange. I tried several times repeting it from the beginning but there wasn't nothing to do.

Is it a compatibility problem?
I am using Zgemma  h7s

[Pike_Bishop]

if you start openvpn manually with /etc/init.d/openvpn start then openvpn is running ?

if yes try in telnet;

cd /etc/rcS.d
ln -s ../init.d/openvpn S99openvpn

and restart your box.

Edited by Biki3, 13 October 2018 - 20:19.

[WanWizard]

update-rc.d openvpn defaults

should work fine. But OpenVPN will only start if there is a valid config, so you may have to bump the log level and check what is going on.

 

This issue has been fixed in the upcoming release btw...

[Nikei]

And which team telnet to stop OpenVPN?

[luxor]

I've retried, but something doesn't work. The problem is when I reboot my box, I loose vpn and even if I start it manually on telnet , nothing changes.

I also tried

 

cd /etc/rcS.d
ln -s ../init.d/openvpn S99openvpn

 

nothing changes.

 

I updated to the last 6.2 release

 

I can't understand why the first time I do all the procedure it works fine, while when I reboot there is no way to make it work. The only way is doing everything from the beginning

[WanWizard]

The init link should be in /etc/rc3.d, not in /etc/rcS.d. Which is where update-rc.d will create it.