Openvpn HELPPP!!

abdel-hakim abousrea

Dears,
I am really need someone help me and advice me, I need to create Openvpn on Centos 7 so I need the basics steps and knowledge ,
Now I will installing Centos 7 and install OpenVPN and certification all of that it's good but I have a issue and Question , let start by Question Do i need a public IP on the openVPn server ! from ISP ? and Do I need to doing anything on the Router ! like as port forward and how !!
I need someone explain to me the basics steps, the issue is while i finished all VPN installation the error shows me the systemctle openvpn could not start.

thanks,

DustinB3403

@abdel-hakim-abousrea to start, if you have access to the internet, you have a public IP, it could be a statically assigned IP or one that could change randomly.

Having a static public IP to use for this would be ideal.

DustinB3403

@abdel-hakim-abousrea You'll likely have to make changes to your gateway so you can allow access from the outside in.

This would depend on what you use for a router.

DustinB3403

@abdel-hakim-abousrea said in Openvpn HELPPP!!:

while i finished all VPN installation the error shows me the systemctle openvpn could not start.

Were you following an installation guide for this, if so can you post it here so we can determine how accurate it may be and hopefully find something more useful.

abdel-hakim abousrea

@DustinB3403

DustinB3403

@abdel-hakim-abousrea Did you look at the logs journalctl -xe and see if there is anything in there which would indicate the error?

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in Openvpn HELPPP!!:

@abdel-hakim-abousrea Did you look at the logs journalctl -xe and see if there is anything in there which would indicate the error?

The screenshot alone tells us the tls-auth option is bad.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in Openvpn HELPPP!!:

@abdel-hakim-abousrea You'll likely have to make changes to your gateway so you can allow access from the outside in.

This would depend on what you use for a router.

If the system is behind NAT, then port 1394 needs forwarded through the router to the OpenVPN server.

JaredBusch

@DustinB3403 said in Openvpn HELPPP!!:

@abdel-hakim-abousrea to start, if you have access to the internet, you have a public IP, it could be a statically assigned IP or one that could change randomly.

Having a static public IP to use for this would be ideal.

Set up a FQDN for your system, even if it is a static IP. Either via some type of dynamic DNS or a manual records in your public DNS.