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Help required, Certain VPN does not connect and times out (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 months ago by sga@lemmy.ml to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
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Can someone help, i have been having trouble connected with my home universities vpn, for past 15-20days, it is an openvpn connection, so i have been using networkmanager-openvpn to import my config files, and they have worked previously, but for last 15-20 days i get connection timed out, all certificates used are correct, i have tried to connect on cli,

Connection activation failed: The connection attempt timed out

and it suggests to check journalctl logs (nothing erroneous i could find) i am also able to connect with this vpn with my phone (with openvpn official app with same files), and also i am able to connect to proton's vpns with my laptop, so i guess my device is not completely broken, i have tried to redownload my certificate files, recreating vpn profile, reinstalling networkmanager, nothing worked

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[-] sga@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

i tried a live usb (i had a linux mint one) - same error

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Your phone is fine with the new certificates but Linux on the desktop is not. #showerthought Would it be possible that both Arch Linux and Linux Mint have software upgraded that is causing the connection failure ? Could it still work if you would use an older LTS Linux version as live USB stick ? Or would the new certificates actually require newer software, like OpenSSL (which is I think a build dependency for OpenVPN) on the desktop ? EDIT: I guess the latter is not the case since Arch Linux is a rolling distribution. But you could ask your IT persons at the university whether they upgraded something ?

[-] sga@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

with my college, they are not even up to current openvpn versions, if i use a verbose vpn app on phone (open vpn for android on fdroid), i have to use compatibility settings to even connect, they even use older encryption standards and compression settings, what i think is coincidentally something in my system updated which may not work with their current configs, and on my phone it is somehow still working

this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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