r/OpenVPN

I’m trying to understand how OpenVPN users think about setup flows.

For people who already use OpenVPN:

- Do you prefer downloading a .ovpn file and importing it manually?

- Do you expect a VPN provider to offer its own app?

- What information should be shown before you trust and import a profile?

- Do active sessions, routing details, and connection history matter outside the VPN client itself?

I’m not promoting a product or link here. I’m just trying to understand what makes a VPN setup feel transparent and trustworthy for technical users.

NordVPN now offers a private, dedicated VPN server as an add-on. Not for everyone, perhaps, but I can see it as a good feature for gamers and other power users...

Hi everyone,

I have pfsense 2.8 and I’m trying to set up a VPN on my router with NordVPN. Their instructions say 2.5. but I’m not sure if that matters or not.
I am trying to use server us8567 and the port in the ovpn file says port 53 while the official instructions say 1194. I have tried both in the client.

https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/20285211284497-pfSense-setup-with-NordVPN

My client will run it just keeps saying “Waiting for response from peer”.

My only other thing is I have pfblockerng in use on the router for ad blocking and a separate open VPN to allow my phone to connect to my network remotely. I am hoping these two things are not interfering with something . (They shouldn’t honestly but who knows)

I don’t know what to do, is it the Dns settings? In General DNS Server settings I have 4 servers, two nordvpn provides and 2 for my ad blocking. Would that be a problem?

Sorry if it’s a bit rambling, I’ve been going in circles on this and it’s a little frustrating to follow the instructions exactly and not have it work. If you need more details on what else I tried let me know.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently setting up a VPN server (hosted linux machine) in order to connect my notebook to my home network using OpenVPN Access Server. I managed to get it to the point where I can successfully ping my router at home using it's private address. The only remaining problem is accessing other machines in my home network. Both my router and my notebook are running in split-tunnel mode, server pushes the route for my home network. My home router has the ASUS wrt merlin firmware. Is there a routing problem, e.g. devices or router at home don't know where to send responses or is there another issue I don't have in mind?

Running tracert gives me this:

C:\Users\User>tracert 192.168.50.1 (<- Router at home)

Tracing route to 192.168.50.1 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1     *      193 ms   207 ms  172.27.230.1
  2    44 ms    43 ms    47 ms  192.168.50.1

Trace complete.

C:\Users\User>tracert 192.168.50.3 (<- Server at home)

Tracing route to 192.168.50.3 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1   667 ms   411 ms    62 ms  172.27.230.1
  2    71 ms    48 ms   139 ms  172.27.228.3  (<- Router at home)
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.

And the ipconfig output for my notebook:

Unknown adapter Local Area Connection:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2d38:8018:80e1:bdc3%18
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.27.230.2
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.254.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 

Notebook config:

client
proto udp
nobind
remote <placeholder>
port 1194
dev tun
dev-type tun
remote-cert-tls server
tls-version-min 1.2
reneg-sec 604800
tun-mtu 1420
auth-user-pass
verb 3
push-peer-info

Router config:

client
proto udp
nobind
remote <placeholder>
port 1194
dev tun
dev-type tun
remote-cert-tls server
tls-version-min 1.2
reneg-sec 604800
tun-mtu 1420
auth-user-pass
verb 3
push-peer-info

I've got 50 licenses with 2 Access Servers in offices; I'd like to spool up a couple of more, is there any limitations?

What options are there nowadays to run a OpenVPN client on TrueNAS? Is there any App for this?

My understanding is that the OpenVPN service was removed starting from 23.10 (!?!).

I’m building a minimal TrueNAS box to be located at a relative’s house for offsite backup (via replication), and I would like this to connect as client to my existing OpenVPN server at the primary location.
As I already have the OpenVPN server running and in use for other scopes I want to avoid another type of VPN solution (e.g. Tailscale).
As this is at relative’s house I would like to avoid another separate firewall/VPN box. I could run Proxmox on the box I’m building with one VM for pfSense creating a site to site VPN, and a second VM for TrueNAS. But this seems a bit over complicating things…

Hi, I want my notebook to connect to an OpenVPN Server and only send traffic for my home network through it. Full tunnel works without any issues but the split tunnel config break my regular internet traffic that's not being sent through the tunnel. What is wrong with my config? I am pretty new to vpn setups (I removed the keys part):

client
nobind
dev tun
remote-cert-tls server
remote vpn.mydomain.com 1194 udp
<key>

</key>

<cert>

</cert>

<ca>

</ca>

key-direction 1
<tls-auth>

</tls-auth>

route-nopull
route 192.168.50.0 255.255.255.0

hello fellas, so here is the problem (Im also new to OpenVPN), i run OpenVPN on my Germany/Turkey VPS and want to play online games using it, but when i connect to it, it wont join the lobby's; for example, i tested it on Arena Infinity, it connects and you can login, gearing up and even shooting range is working(in shooting range it also shows the Ping), but when i start the game and want to join game, it wont join the lobby and gets disconnected.
also one time tried on Warframe, if goes in but you cant join teams.
I tested on different MTU or Ports with default or modified server.config/client.ovpn.
i really tried every thing i knew for days even with GPT but couldn't find the problem.
And yes, it works when i use it for Youtube or Instagram Etc.
Much appreciated for help ;D