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Re: [Openvpn-users] Remote client stopped connecting


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Remote client stopped connecting
  • From: Steven Coutts <scoutts@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:16:01 +0000

On Monday 10 October 2005 10:10, Steven Coutts wrote:
> I have a machine in a remote site that has been connecting back to our
> VPN very successfully for a while now. However, it is just stopped
> working all of a sudden, according to the server logs it is getting this
> far -:
>
> Oct 10 10:01:45 stpct10 openvpn[10896]: *.*.*.*:5001 Local Options hash
> (VER=V4): '239669a8'
> Oct 10 10:01:45 stpct10 openvpn[10896]: *.*.*.*:5001 Expected Remote
> Options hash (VER=V4): '3514370b'
> Oct 10 10:01:45 stpct10 openvpn[10896]: *.*.*.*:5001 TLS: Initial packet
> from *.*.*.*:5001, sid=71d8c7df 23bde18d
>
> But it is failing to connect -:
>
> Oct 10 10:02:45 stpct10 openvpn[10896]: *.*.*.*:5001
> SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, client-instance restarting
> Oct 10 10:02:47 stpct10 openvpn[10896]: *.*.*.*:5001 Re-using SSL/TLS
> context
>
> Anyone any ideas what this could be before I go out to the site?
>
> Regards

Just so you all know, this seemed to be caused by the client connecting with 
the same local port as the remote port.

Setting a different local port in the config file then enabled it to connect 
again.

Regards

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Steven Coutts B.Sc.(Hons) MBCS
scoutts@xxxxxxxxxx

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