Blank VPN Status Page
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garycnew
Senior Member
All:
It appears I may have to rely on the command-line to check vpn client stats, as I've had to do with dhcp client leases.
I never ran into issues with the VPN Status Page on firmware 384. It's interesting how things evolve and devolve over time.
Respectfully,
Gary
It appears I may have to rely on the command-line to check vpn client stats, as I've had to do with dhcp client leases.
Code:
# cat /etc/openvpn/client1/status
REMOTE,###.###.###.###:###,Static_Key
OpenVPN STATISTICS
Updated,2025-02-24 21:31:43
TUN/TAP read bytes,68
TUN/TAP write bytes,60
TCP/UDP read bytes,15897
TCP/UDP write bytes,6517
Auth read bytes,1164
END
# cat /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leasesI never ran into issues with the VPN Status Page on firmware 384. It's interesting how things evolve and devolve over time.
Respectfully,
Gary
A suggestion. Post a screen capture (redacting sensitive information) of what you are seeing so others have some context. Also post up your router model as well for more context.
As a troubleshooting step, have you tried a different web browser on a different computer/device?
ColinTaylor
Part of the Furniture
Nope, it should work fine.
garycnew
Senior Member
Running Asuswrt-Merlin 3004.388.8_4 on an Asus GT-AXE11000. I've tried a couple of different browsers. Safari has a Blank VPN Status Page less often than Firefox, but both browsers have a Blank VPN Status Page more than they do not. This is at the same time client1/status reports active statistics.
Example Screenshot of Blank VPN Status Page:
Example Screenshot of Blank VPN Status Page:
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dave14305
Part of the Furniture
As with most web page rendering issues, check your browser developer console for errors from the page. Also try browsing directly to the ajax page that provides the status fields to look for any unusual output.
https://192.168.0.1:8443/ajax_vpn_status.asp
ColinTaylor
Part of the Furniture
My status file includes compression stats. Maybe that's the issue?
EDIT: Looking at the source code that shouldn't make a difference.
Code:
# cat /etc/openvpn/client1/status
REMOTE,89.34.98.110:1194,Static_Key
OpenVPN STATISTICS
Updated,2025-02-26 12:12:54
TUN/TAP read bytes,68
TUN/TAP write bytes,60
TCP/UDP read bytes,6716
TCP/UDP write bytes,2207
Auth read bytes,108
pre-compress bytes,0
post-compress bytes,0
pre-decompress bytes,0
post-decompress bytes,0
ENDEDIT: Looking at the source code that shouldn't make a difference.
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garycnew
Senior Member
@dave14305
The Web Developer Tools > Console shows the following notices:
1. This page is in Almost Standards Mode. Page layout may be impacted. For Standards Mode use “<!DOCTYPE html>”. Advanced_VPNStatus.asp
2. Some cookies are misusing the recommended “SameSite“ attribute 3
3. Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience. For more help http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ jquery.js:5:17962
The Web Developer Tools > Network shows "NS_BINDING_ABORTED" for the ajax_ipsec.asp page; when, the VPN Status Page is Blank:
Request Headers:
Code:
GET /ajax_ipsec.asp?_=1740605663870 undefined
Host: 192.168.0.1:8443
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0
Accept: text/javascript, application/javascript, application/ecmascript, application/x-ecmascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: https://192.168.0.1:8443/Advanced_VPNStatus.asp
Cookie: clickedItem_tab=0; uiscribe_scriptconfig=expanded; bw_rtab=INTERNET; hwaddr=58:11:22:5A:07:E0; apps_last=; asus_s_token=8GNJo1wjIm5JH1ZHESYlbnUSgpLoHUt; ASUS_TrafficMonitor_unit=1; dhcp_sortcol=1; dhcp_sortmet=1
Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-originThe ajax_vpn_status.asp page renders the correct, updated results every time:
Code:
vpn_server1_status = "None";vpn_server2_status = "None";vpn_client1_status = "REMOTE,81.19.216.253:1194,Static_Key>OpenVPN STATISTICS>Updated,2025-02-26 14:22:23>TUN/TAP read bytes,587672396>TUN/TAP write bytes,396437834>TCP/UDP read bytes,416989308>TCP/UDP write bytes,613953592>Auth read bytes,396447121>END>";vpn_client2_status = "None";vpn_client3_status = "None";vpn_client4_status = "None";vpn_client5_status = "None";server1pid = "-1";server2pid = "-1";pptpdpid = "-1";vpn_client1_ip = "10.8.8.5";vpn_client2_ip = "0.0.0.0";vpn_client3_ip = "0.0.0.0";vpn_client4_ip = "0.0.0.0";vpn_client5_ip = "0.0.0.0";vpn_client1_rip = "81.19.216.254";vpn_client2_rip = "";vpn_client3_rip = "";vpn_client4_rip = "";vpn_client5_rip = "";It seems to be an issue with the ajax_ipsec.asp page?
Thanks, again.
Gary
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dave14305
Part of the Furniture
Does this happen with other browsers? Maybe there are too many concurrent ajax requests. What if you disable the cache in the developer tools and reload the page?
garycnew
Senior Member
@dave14305
Yes... As stated previously, this issue occurs with Firefox and Safari. I disabled the developer tools cache and reloaded the page several times without success.
I noticed that when left on the Advanced_VPNStatus.asp page, the browsre continuously makes requests to the ajax_ipsec.asp and ajax_status.xml pages with 200 responses, but the Advanced_VPNStatus.asp page remains blank.
Good Times.
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