OpenVPN on Debian?

[jz_]

Hey guys, I followed

viewtopic.php?f=46&t=11034&p=58590&hili ... vpn#p58590

To set up OpenVPN on my Debian machine, and I also made sure the NFO firewall accepts UDP packets. I set up iptables rules to allow UDP on port 1194 as well, restarted OpenVPN and still get:

"TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)"

I know I don't have a managed VDS and don't expect a crazy amount of support, but does anyone know what the issue could be? I disabled router firewall completely as well (I'm trying to set up OpenVPN connection on router directly with AsusWRT-Merlin), and gone over https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-sour ... ivity.html but I cannot get it working

[kraze]

Did you verify that the OpenVPN server was actually started after installing it? Try issuing you /etc/init.d/openvpn restart to the server to ensure it booted up properly.

[jz_]

Did you verify that the OpenVPN server was actually started after installing it? Try issuing you /etc/init.d/openvpn restart to the server to ensure it booted up properly.

Yes, it is running perfectly.

If I change protocol to TCP it works great, but I wanted to use UDP or at least understand WHY it's not working on UDP. And yes when I make the protocol change I am changing on both server and client then restarting both.

No matter what I try I get the timeout error on UDP, and like I was saying the router firewall is completely off, as is the DOS protection. And the router is the one making the connection.

[kraze]

If it's working on TCP, but not UDP that's a decent indication as UDP is just being blocked. What do your server side OpenVPN logs say?