VPN Help, stressed!!!

[theoriginal1981]

Hi people first post here, and it is a stressful one.

I bought a Raspberry Pi for the sole purpose of trying to get a VPN to work. My god, I didn't realise it would be so hard. I've been at it for hours now, and I am near about to give up. I have followed a guide on Readwrite.com and also looked at a recent one on the BBC. I think i was sucked into that one, due to the presenter Kate Russell. Moving on, the problem is it just doesn't work. When I reboot the pi, I get two fails. One on the starting virtual private network daemon: server. The second on startpar: service(s) returned failure: openvpn.

I'm with BT I don't have a static ip, but each time I've restarted the pi the ip address has been the same. Any clues as to what i am doing wrong, or any tips. The pi is the latest version. I'm hoping someone out there is a little more switched onto this than me. I've checked all the code so many times...

Many thanks

James.

[theoriginal1981]

Now i have slept I thought probably a bit more helpful if I uploaded the server.conf for people to see.

local 192.168.1.92 # (This is my ip of the pi, which i changed it to)
dev tun
proto udp #Some people prefer to use tcp. Don't change it if you don't know.
port 1194
ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/matrix.crt # I put the server name in both of these.
key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/matrix.key # SWAP WITH YOUR KEY NAME
dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/dh1024.pem # If you changed to 2048, change that here!
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
# server and remote endpoints
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
# Add route to Client routing table for the OpenVPN Server
push "route 10.8.0.1 255.255.255.255"
# Add route to Client routing table for the OpenVPN Subnet
push "route 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0"
# your local subnet
push "route 192.168.1.92 255.255.255.0" # changed this to the pi ip address also
# Set primary domain name server address to the SOHO Router
# If your router does not do DNS, you can use Google DNS 8.8.8.8 # Bit confused here!!
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.2.1" # This should already match your router address and not need$
# Override the Client default gateway by using 0.0.0.0/1 and
# 128.0.0.0/1 rather than 0.0.0.0/0. This has the benefit of
# overriding but not wiping out the original default gateway.
push "redirect-gateway def1"
client-to-client
duplicate-cn
keepalive 10 120
tls-auth /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ta.key 0
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status /var/log/openvpn-status.log 20
log /var/log/openvpn.log
verb 1

[DougieLawson]

Trim your config file down to something simpler.

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port 1194
dev tun
ca ca.crt
cert example.server.crt
key example.server.key  # This file should be kept secret
dh example.dh1024.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user openvpn
group openvpn
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3

[theoriginal1981]

Thanks for the reply, ill try again tomorrow after work, with the more efficient code let you know.

James.