Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN win7 routing fails (TUN/TAP device doesn't come up), but only sometimes.

[Allan S. <all...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Arthur Murray <amu...@gm...> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Arthur Murray <amu...@gm...> wrote:
>> I don't understand why it sometimes is immediate, sometimes requires a
>> longer "Waiting for TUN/TAP interface.." loop and sometimes doesn't
>> ever come up within the route-delay period I'm not able to narrow
>> things down (I wonder why openvpn-gui would ever present the
>> connection as being successful if the Tap-Win32 adapter has obviously
>> failed ("TEST ROUTES" never has a ret=1) and doesn't have a proper
>> IP?)
>
> Hello,
>
> I continue to have occasions when OpenVPN-gui indicates that it is
> fully connected, and yet the TAP-Win32 adapter does not have an
> address.
>
> Long loop of:
> Route: Waiting for TUN/TAP interface to come up...
> TEST ROUTES: 0/0 succeeded len=0 ret=0 a=0 u/d=down
>
> And never a:
> TEST ROUTES: 1/1 succeeded len=0 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up
>
are both sides using windows?
try the following too:
in server config, add
<snip>
route-method exe
</snip>

also, check if openvpn is being run as an administrator, check your uac settings


> I've been trying to think of a simple solution for my users: perhaps
> modifying the openvpn-gui source to look for the "TEST ROUTES: 1/1" as
> a necessary line in its console for that session, and if it doesn't
> see it, force an immediate reconnect (before it even bothers to
> pretend that the connection is successful)?  It is quite an ugly thing
> to do, (haven't looked at the source yet but I assume it would be
> straightforward), but is there any better bullet-proof solution to
> this problem?     I don't ever want openvpn-gui to present the
> connection as being successful when it obviously doesn't have the
> proper routing.
>
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