VPN client connecting to VPN server on Raspberry PI

Technical Support for Routers
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dear forum.gl-inet.com

i have configured a vpn client on my GL-AR300M-604 to connect with my openvpn server running on a raspberry pi. the client connects successfully and status stays green, but no packets seem to go through the VPN tunnel (based on my sniffing the VPN server).

i have turned off/on VPN policies and various settings. when i turn the tunnel off or allow a client to bypass it, all is good.

This same VPN server works fine with linux based openvpn clients but there, i have to apply a firewall rule to “force” packets into the tunnel.

do you do something similar on this router?

why isnt traffic going through the tunnel?

very frustrating…

andrew

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Can you pos the content of ovpn file?

Do you use username/password and private key passphrase for the connection?

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Good morning,

I found the problem and my VPN tunnel is now working just fine.

the problem turned out to be conflicting compression defaults between server (compression off by default) and GL-AR300M-604 client (compression ON by default). The ridiculous error messages didn’t help much, but my fault none the less. Lesson:- more speed less haste!

Compression is supposed to be off by default. How do I force it off in my openvpn client config file?

Thx! --Andrew

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Maybe try add this line

comp-lzo no