I have 2 routers
ar300m/nand
ar150
and Both Drop the VPN connection at least 2 and often 3 or more times a day (PIA)
it has become a big drag trying to keep up with all the disconnects.
I have to jump from network to network just to reconnect these VPNs and it has been going on for a while now. People are starting to not trust them and would rather use an unsecured connection.
is there any way to get these VPNs to reconnect on there own?
is there some package that can be installed?
is there any other firmware that would do this if GL-iNet can’t?
all firmware is current
Thank You for your Kick’n Product.
I have nordvpn running using openvpn clients on B1300, MT300N-V2 and AR300M. Yes I do get momentary disconnection almost daily on all those devices as indicated by all those failed 30KB~50KB speed download sessions, but they all auto reconnect back to the same servers and I have to restart the downloads.
I gave up after a month of trying without success on getting a single episode (1GB) of drama at 10KB/s from a certain file host, and I will never attempt to download anything from google drive through a VPN tunnel because its so blazingly fast that the data rate just flood the tunnel and drown out all the sessions through it, and that may be partially the cause of your disconnections.
@motley I wish that was my issue. The VPN’s can just be sitting there idol. (Over Night) and when I get up I Must always reconnect to them, Never fails to make my morning. Then they cut out during the day. Yesterday the VPN would cut out within minutes of reconnecting.
I’m not sure how to get the error log from the router.
if someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great.
I recently changed ISPs from DSL to Cable and thought maybe that the cable company isp was messing with me but I can not tell if it is them, PIA or the router.
I’ve contacted PIA and have a Msg in with the ISP but I fear this will get me nowhere good.
you can get the log in advanced setting (luci) → system log
Find lines with OpenVPN and there maybe some reason of VPN disconnected.
Dr. Rave, had the same issue as you across multiple models. I too have PIA, only thing that fixed it was manually flashing firmware version 2.261
@kimballslice1890 Thanks I will keep that in mind
@alzhao can you decode the logs and maybe give me an idea at what is going on here?
OpenVpn is not started
Last log
WARNING: ‘link-mtu’ is used inconsistently, local=‘link-mtu 1558’, remote=‘link-mtu 1542’
WARNING: ‘cipher’ is used inconsistently, local=‘cipher AES-128-CBC’, remote=‘cipher BF-CBC’ [f612bb00027ec8b2f3ccbdf3c3a9c2b0] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:1198 AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED SIGTERM[soft,auth-failure] received, process exiting
and this is the advanced sys log (at least what I felt might be of interest
Thu May 3 12:02:30 2018 daemon.notice hostapd: wlan0: AP-STA-DISCONNECTED 00:c1:41:31:11:06
Thu May 3 12:02:32 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Thu May 3 12:02:35 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Thu May 3 12:02:37 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Thu May 3 12:02:41 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: disassociated due to inactivity
Thu May 3 12:02:42 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE)
Thu May 3 12:02:50 2018 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:c1:41:31:11:06 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: AP Ok=1
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: network(caIfnames) = wan wan6 wwan
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: STA Ok=1
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Everthing is OK!!!
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 12:02:59 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Connected Hotspot: SSID = CaptBill-II, BSSID = 60:e3:27:5d:2f:f8
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPDISCOVER(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPOFFER(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPREQUEST(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd
Thu May 3 12:04:05 2018 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[1852]: DHCPACK(br-lan) 192.168.8.169 84:16:f9:1a:a3:fd DR.Raven
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12758]: OpenVPN 2.4.3 mips-openwrt-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD]
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12758]: library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2k 26 Jan 2017, LZO 2.09
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:1198
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: UDP link local: (not bound)
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: UDP link remote: [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:1198
Thu May 3 12:04:17 2018 daemon.warn openvpn[12763]: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Thu May 3 12:04:19 2018 daemon.warn openvpn[12763]: WARNING: 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1558', remote='link-mtu 1542'
Thu May 3 12:04:19 2018 daemon.warn openvpn[12763]: WARNING: 'cipher' is used inconsistently, local='cipher AES-128-CBC', remote='cipher BF-CBC'
Thu May 3 12:04:19 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: [f612bb00027ec8b2f3ccbdf3c3a9c2b0] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:1198
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'VPN_client' is enabled
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'tun0' link is up
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'VPN_client' has link connectivity
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'VPN_client' is setting up now
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'VPN_client' is now up
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: do_ifconfig, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local 10.37.10.6 peer 10.37.10.5
Thu May 3 12:04:20 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[12763]: Initialization Sequence Completed
Thu May 3 12:04:21 2018 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of VPN_client (tun0)
Thu May 3 12:04:21 2018 daemon.info odhcpd[1300]: Using a RA lifetime of 0 seconds on br-lan
Thu May 3 12:04:29 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: AP Ok=1
Thu May 3 12:04:29 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: network(caIfnames) = wan wan6 wwan
Thu May 3 12:04:30 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 12:04:30 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: STA Ok=1
Thu May 3 12:04:30 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Everthing is OK!!!
Thu May 3 12:04:30 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 12:04:30 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Connected Hotspot: SSID = Capt-II, BSSID = 00:e0:37:3d:2b:c8
Thu May 3 13:40:50 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 13:40:50 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: STA Ok=1
Thu May 3 13:40:50 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Everthing is OK!!!
Thu May 3 13:40:50 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: check wpa runing = 2301
Thu May 3 13:40:50 2018 daemon.info gl-health>>: Connected Hotspot: SSID = Capt-II, BSSID = 00:e0:37:3d:2b:c8
Well I downgraded down to v2.26 and the happiness still plagues me but it seems to be giving me a little bit different output logs
GUI Error log…
| OpenVpn is |
not started |
| Last log |
TCP_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:443 [f612bb00027ec8b2f3ccbdf3c3a9c2b0] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:443 AUTH: Received control message: AUTH_FAILED /usr/sbin/ip addr del dev tun0 local 10.40.1.6 peer 10.40.1.5 SIGTERM[soft,auth-failure] received, process exiting |
Thu May 3 16:33:37 2018 user.emerg syslog: cat: can't open '/etc/openvpn/(Legacy': No such file or directory
Thu May 3 16:33:37 2018 user.emerg syslog: cat: can't open 'TCP-IP)': No such file or directory
Thu May 3 16:33:37 2018 user.emerg syslog: cat: can't open 'US': No such file or directory
Thu May 3 16:33:37 2018 user.emerg syslog: cat: can't open 'East.ovpn': No such file or directory
Thu May 3 16:33:40 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[2494]: OpenVPN 2.4.0 mips-openwrt-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD]
Thu May 3 16:33:40 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[2494]: library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016, LZO 2.08
Thu May 3 16:33:40 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[2527]: TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:443
Thu May 3 16:33:40 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[2527]: Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:443 [nonblock]
Thu May 3 16:33:40 2018 daemon.err openvpn[2527]: TCP: connect to [AF_INET]208.167.254.82:443 failed: Network is unreachable
Thu May 3 16:33:41 2018 daemon.notice openvpn[2527]: SIGUSR1[connection failed(soft),init_instance] received, process restarting
It saids Auth failure, which means your username/password is not correct
So it seems that when I down graded things got corrupted seems that after I re-loaded my VPNs with the PW again and stuck with v2.26 things seem to be going better I will know more later.
I will slowly upgrade my firmware (day by day) until thinks things start getting sketchy again.
My thinking is the Beta.
The only problem I have with that thought is I have to reset my ar150 v2.64 daily… Maybe, just maybe v2.27 was sketching out my whole network…?
I will soon find out.