Vpn

[bigboy7foru]

Has anyone Built one before?

I need assistance!!!

[ainsworth_t]

I've actually been reading around on the subject the past few days. Still feel a little lost, but picking up some of it.

What are you needing the VPN to do? i.e for roadwarriors or bridge two subnets? Also what type (IPSec, SSL, PPTP) are you looking to implement?

[bigboy7foru]

Both roadwarriors and bridge two subnets.

We are running it on ssl

just having a few problems getting it up and established

[ainsworth_t]

just having a few problems getting it up and established
...such as?

[bigboy7foru]

we were getting a prompt that says:

Can not write openvpn server sysinit script here:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/gadmin-openvpn-server

and we did a command line thing to fix it but now it does nothing

[ainsworth_t]

How did you install it? Did you install OpenVPN from the Ubuntu repositoris or did you download and install the access server .deb from the OpenVPN site?

[bigboy7foru]

OK we installed GADMIN from Synaptic

we made the certificates and have it almost running now but we ran into a hicup

we have an error: TCP/UDP: Socket Bind failed on local address 216.253.219.22:1194: Cannot assign requested address

[thefunnyman]

OK we installed GADMIN from Synaptic

we made the certificates and have it almost running now but we ran into a hicup

we have an error: TCP/UDP: Socket Bind failed on local address 216.253.219.22:1194: Cannot assign requested address

Make sure that openvpn isn't running and currently using that port. I bet that's what's going on.

HTH

[bigboy7foru]

Well we shut down the machine several time and it keeps geting that error... would it still be open if we shut the computer down??

[ainsworth_t]

Usually when a service is installed on Linux, it creates an autostart script so the service will start at bootup. Therefore, whenever you reboot the box, it will start up again. Instead of bringing down the entire system, try stopping the service
sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn stop

[bigboy7foru]

Would that give me that error i posted above?

[ainsworth_t]

That I'm not sure of. You're problem is probably outside my understand now. Have you tried using the ubuntu community documentation as a guide for your setup? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNServer

[bigboy7foru]

no but ill try it thanks

That I'm not sure of. You're problem is probably outside my understand now. Have you tried using the ubuntu community documentation as a guide for your setup? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VPNServer

[bigboy7foru]

so its stil not fixed i have gotten alot more done since last time but im not sure

[thefunnyman]

so its stil not fixed i have gotten alot more done since last time but im not sure

reboot the machine and post the output of the following commands:


sudo netstat -tnap

and

dmesg

Maybe that will help figure out what the heck is going on...

[bigboy7foru]

ok im rebooting nowopenvpn Cannot assign requested address

[thefunnyman]

ok im rebooting nowopenvpn Cannot assign requested address

and the output of the commands I posted?

[bigboy7foru]

and the output of the commands I posted?


i lost all internet connections

i was gone this weekend but am trying to restore them

[El Menda]

OK we installed GADMIN from Synaptic

we made the certificates and have it almost running now but we ran into a hicup

we have an error: TCP/UDP: Socket Bind failed on local address 216.253.219.22:1194: Cannot assign requested address

I know it's late, but I solved this error commenting in openvpn.conf the line:

local #.#.#.#