The easiest way would be to run openvpn manually in the terminal and see what you get, but that requires finding the config file. It’s usually stored in /etc/openvpn/. The 4.x firmware creates a random number directory and sticks the profile and auth text file in there. Basically if you find the file and run “openvpn config.file” (with config.file replaced with the actual config file) it will spit everything out to console. Ctrl-C to exit.
Install putty and login at the Mango’s IP address with root/password.
Openvpn logs to the system log, so to read it run logread. There isn’t a separate log file.
You can also run logread -f, which will print messages to the terminal as they are created (ctrl-c to stop). So shrink the putty window bring up the router in a browswer window, start the connection and read the messages in the putty window.
PS: You are on firmware 3.215, yes? Don’t try 3.216.
No (or not knowingly) and the router is behaving as though DHCP isn’t working (VPN is off!) as i had to manually set the IP address for my laptop to access it
As i don’t use IPV6 and its off on my netgear router i don’t know how it gets into the ovpn file. It certainly isn’t obvious to my untrained eye. How do I turn it off on the Mango?
OK, I’m back on this. IPV6 is definitely off on the Netgear and Mango router. Things are very unreliable - sometime i can connect to the openvpn server, other times i get similar errors to that above (with IPV6 addresses). I really can’t find any pattern