Connection Fix
Fix for connection issues
Older OpenVPN builds will have connection issues with newer client releases. To fix this issue run the command below to install the newer OpenVPN package from the Pritunl repository. A TCP server can also be used as a workaround to fix some of the issues.
RHEL, Oracle Linux, Alma Linux
The pritunl-openvpn
package is only available on the Oracle Linux 7 and Oracle Linux 8 repositories and will provide the latest version of OpenVPN.
sudo yum swap openvpn pritunl-openvpn
sudo yum --allowerasing install pritunl-openvpn
This can be reverted by running the command below.
sudo yum --allowerasing install openvpn
Ubuntu
For Ubuntu use the OpenVPN Debian/Ubuntu repositories by running the commands below.
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable focal main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable noble main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable buster main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable bullseye main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
sudo -s
curl -fsSL https://swupdate.openvpn.net/repos/repo-public.gpg | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/openvpn-repo-public.gpg] https://build.openvpn.net/debian/openvpn/release/stable bookworm main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
Updated 8 days ago