GL-MT300N VPN failures

ataboy · 2020-03-31T15:43:37.400Z

Whatever I do, I’m unable to use GL-MT300N as a VPN client, either for OpenVPN or WireGuard.

I have two VPNs: PiVPN and Mullvad.

My PiVPN’s .ovpn files fail when I import them, probably because they contain my log-in credentials. I have tried to create new ones without these credentials baked-in but so far I’ve had no luck.

I have tried to connect to Mullvad using the built-in WireGuard wizard on the router, but they aren’t accepted either.

If anyone has had any luck with either configuration, I’d appreciate a bit of help please.

WSS · 2020-03-31T19:25:43.401Z

Are they encoded .OVPN files, or not? There are usually differences with options for OpenVPN; you’ll need the unencoded version to update and debug most of the time- or login to the service via ssh to your router and try running openvpn ‘path-to-config’ for further debugging.

ataboy · 2020-03-31T21:16:49.408Z

I don’t know how I would know if they’re encoded. I created them with the command ‘pivpn add’.

I tried to create a new profile with 'pivpn add nopass’ thinking that it might prompt me for a password when run but that didn’t help.

WSS · 2020-04-03T17:17:42.353Z

It does look like pivpn add nopass should have worked to create a user without a password.

Try using scp to copy your file to root@:/tmp and then login to it using ssh, then try running openvpn /tmp/ and check for errors. I’m afraid I’m not completely versed with the most recent build of GL’s wrapper; I’m much more familiar with v2.

alzhao · 2020-04-06T09:49:51.897Z

What is happening when you use the built-in wireguard wizard for Mullvad?

Does it pop up error?

ataboy · 2020-04-06T10:05:50.432Z

I was probably making some rookie error (I’m obviously not very VPN-literate) so in the end I gave up. I realised that it would probably be better to use WireGuard than OpenVPN for my private VPN so I’ll probably buy another GL-MT300N for that purpose and set it up as a Wireguard Server. Thanks for your help anyway.

ataboy · 2020-04-06T10:08:33.786Z

No, no errors; it showed that it was connected but it just didn’t connect. In the end I talked it through with Mullvad and they suggested that I simply open the configuration file in a text editor and paste it in. That worked, although I had to play about with the VPN policies as well.

WSS · 2020-04-14T17:11:26.694Z

Glad you finally got it working; sorry, I haven’t been back here much.

Any info you can provide the GL-Inet team will help them handle issues with the v3 and future interfaces.

alzhao · 2020-04-15T06:40:06.996Z

The router will try to get the configuration using API. Seems he API requests are blocked by his network.