Openvpn Client setting for PIA

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pepbrow
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Openvpn Client setting for PIA

Have DD-WRT v3.0r35030M kongac running on Netgear R7000P. No other firmware installed. Setup Openvpn client per https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/routers/dd-wrt-3/d...

State was "connected" for about 2 minutes, then nothing. Internet works fine, but no matter what I do, the vpn client will not connect at all.

I've checked it multiple times, and reset to default mutilple times and still it doesn't work

I change the port to 1194 and I get a tls error, which make sense.

ifconfig:

br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:21
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:159687 errors:0 dropped:1267 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:231211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:25916387 (24.7 MiB)  TX bytes:244557936 (233.2 MiB)
br0:0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:21
          inet addr:169.254.255.1  Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:1F
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:551336 errors:0 dropped:10 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:343261 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:422309141 (402.7 MiB)  TX bytes:126644866 (120.7 MiB)
          Interrupt:179 Base address:0x4000
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:21
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:146381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:119961
          TX packets:250284 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:17688391 (16.8 MiB)  TX bytes:259948356 (247.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:163
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:22
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:26167 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:54497 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2750463 (2.6 MiB)  TX bytes:53470978 (50.9 MiB)
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:69 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:5426 (5.2 KiB)  TX bytes:5426 (5.2 KiB)
vlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:1F
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:253273 errors:0 dropped:264 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:226406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:170113773 (162.2 MiB)  TX bytes:105925968 (101.0 MiB)
vlan2     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 8C:3B:AD:FE:A6:20
          inet addr:72.199.142.123  Bcast:72.199.143.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:297973 errors:0 dropped:3256 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:116855 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:240035381 (228.9 MiB)  TX bytes:19345854 (18.4 MiB)

route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         ip xx.xx.xx.xx. 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 vlan2
xx.xx.xx.xx     *               255.255.252.0   U     0      0        0 vlan2
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
xx.xxx.xx.xx    *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 br0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br0

 

ip link show:

nk/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: teql0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 100
    link/void
3: eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: vlan1@eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master br0 state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: vlan2@eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:20 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: eth1:  mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master br0 state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
7: eth2:  mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel master br0 state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
8: br0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 8c:3b:ad:fe:a6:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>,multicast,up,lower_up>
OldSkool1323
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I am on a little bit older

I am on a little bit older version but the only problem I ever had with setting up PIA was the certificate download. When I opened it in notepad to copy it and pasted it in the DD-WRT CA CERT box at bottom it did not paste the whole thing and I couldn't connect. So make sure the entire thing is pasting. I was highlighting and using copy/paste. Once I did it the way they said using control a, control c, and control v it worked fine. Also make sure you pasted the other commands one per line in additional config box(I have one more but don't remember why but it works so I don't change anything, added at bottom):

  • persist-key
  • persist-tun
  • tls-client
  • remote-cert-tls server
  • auth-nocache

Everything else I did exactly as listed in the link above(same as your link but yours had a couple ghost characters at the end and went to a dead page for me).

 

If all else fails this post from PIA forum has a script from a long time member you might want to check out:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/345/setting-up-dd...

 

Hope this helps, if not let me know I will paste a screenshot of my config but like I said everything else is identical to their support page.

OldSkool

OldSkool1323
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Not sure why my link to PIA

Not sure why my link to PIA support page didn't post but here it is:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/routers/dd-wrt-3/d...