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Openvpn Connection Test: Network Device

The document discusses testing an OpenVPN connection between a server and client. It recommends checking that the server interface is created, the client is identified in server logs, the client interface is created and receives an IP, and ping tests can reach the client from the server and vice versa to confirm the VPN connection is working.

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Openvpn Connection Test: Network Device

The document discusses testing an OpenVPN connection between a server and client. It recommends checking that the server interface is created, the client is identified in server logs, the client interface is created and receives an IP, and ping tests can reach the client from the server and vice versa to confirm the VPN connection is working.

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OpenVPN connection test
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Author : Tobias Hofmann

Date : April 16, 2018

After configuring and running both the OpenVPN server and client, it’s a good idea to test if the VPN is
working. This involves some tests on both the server and client.

OpenVPN Server
Network Device
After the server is started, a new interface should be created. Run ifconfig to get a list of all available
interfaces. In case tun is configured in the conf file as device type, a new interface with name tun0 is
created.

ifconfig

Check server log for client connection


In case OpenVPN is started as a service, the log can be found at /var/log/messages. If you start it directly
on the command line, the log will be shown on the shell. When a client connects, the log of the server

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shows the connection information.
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tail -f /var/log/messages

The last lines show client1, meaning that the client not only connected, but is also correctly identified as
client1. The connection is working.

OpenVPN client
Start OpenVPN and the client will try to connect to the server specified in the client.conf file. Client
connecting and receiving IP.

openvpn /etc/openvpn/client.conf tail -f /var/log/messages

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After the connection was established,
https://www.itsfullofstars.de the client is also creating a new interface named tun0. Here a client
named client1 connects and receives the IP 10.8.0.6.

ifconfig

Connection test
Easiest way to test that client and server can talk to each other is to ping both. Just run a ping from the
server to the client IP, and from the client to the server IP. For this, the VPN IP address must be used (e.g.
10.8.0.x).

OpenVPN server
Ping client1 from server.

ping 10.8.0.6

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OpenVPN client
Ping server from client.

ping 10.8.0.1

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