On Wed January 12 2011 08:08:31 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > The failure of netcat, port 1194 to be detected on the > external interface is more fundamental. If someone > with a working tunnel can confirm that the netcat test > of Bob Proulx works, then I'll know that it should work > here before the tunnel can be expected to work.
I don't think so. I can start an OpenVPN tunnel with my eth0 down. When I try your config on one of my test boxes I find the following in syslog: Jan 12 08:50:18 bul-lb ovpn-myvpn[9850]: Options error: --mode server requires --tls-server What do you see in your syslog? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101120852.41064.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net