Hello, SNB. I am a noob when it comes to Merlin software. I just installed it today hoping to get better select what devices are affected by my PIA VPN set up. On the default firmware the set up is simple. Upload the file, username, password, boom connected. On the Merlin software, I am unable to establish a VPN connection. It says I am "Connected" but my Public IP is unknown and a What is My IP search brings back my ISP IP address. Anyways can someone please help me out and maybe tell me what I am doing wrong?
First, I downloaded OPENVPN file from PIA site using the following settings:
OpenVPN 2.4 or newer
Linux
US Seattle
UDP/1197
Above are my settings, I did enter my password and username (just kept it out for this pic)
And here is what I see when I turn it on
And finally my system log
Aug 6 12:49:47 rc_service: httpd 258:notify_rc start_vpnclient1
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: DEPRECATED OPTION: ncp-disable. Disabling cipher negotiation is a deprecated debug feature that will be removed in OpenVPN 2.6
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'aes-256-gcm' but missing in --data-ciphers (CHACHA20-POLY1305:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-GCM:AES-128-CBC:AES-256-CBC). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'aes-256-gcm' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'aes-256-gcm' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'aes-256-gcm' to silence this warning.
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: OpenVPN 2.5.3 arm-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Jul 23 2021
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021, LZO 2.08
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: CRL: loaded 1 CRLs from file crl.pem
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: UDP link local: (not bound)
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: UDP link remote: [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: [seattle418] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: TUN/TAP device tun11 opened
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun11 up mtu 1500
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun11 up
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip addr add dev tun11 10.29.110.3/24
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: ovpn-up 1 client tun11 1500 1625 10.29.110.3 255.255.255.0 init
Aug 6 12:49:52 ovpn-client1[23648]: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Aug 6 12:49:52 ovpn-client1[23648]: Initialization Sequence Completed
Thank you in advance for any help!
First, I downloaded OPENVPN file from PIA site using the following settings:
OpenVPN 2.4 or newer
Linux
US Seattle
UDP/1197
Above are my settings, I did enter my password and username (just kept it out for this pic)
And here is what I see when I turn it on
And finally my system log
Aug 6 12:49:47 rc_service: httpd 258:notify_rc start_vpnclient1
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: DEPRECATED OPTION: ncp-disable. Disabling cipher negotiation is a deprecated debug feature that will be removed in OpenVPN 2.6
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to 'aes-256-gcm' but missing in --data-ciphers (CHACHA20-POLY1305:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-GCM:AES-128-CBC:AES-256-CBC). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add 'aes-256-gcm' to --data-ciphers or change --cipher 'aes-256-gcm' to --data-ciphers-fallback 'aes-256-gcm' to silence this warning.
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: OpenVPN 2.5.3 arm-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Jul 23 2021
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23647]: library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1k 25 Mar 2021, LZO 2.08
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: NOTE: the current --script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: CRL: loaded 1 CRLs from file crl.pem
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: UDP link local: (not bound)
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: UDP link remote: [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: [seattle418] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]154.21.20.217:1197
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: TUN/TAP device tun11 opened
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun11 up mtu 1500
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun11 up
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: /usr/sbin/ip addr add dev tun11 10.29.110.3/24
Aug 6 12:49:49 ovpn-client1[23648]: ovpn-up 1 client tun11 1500 1625 10.29.110.3 255.255.255.0 init
Aug 6 12:49:52 ovpn-client1[23648]: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Aug 6 12:49:52 ovpn-client1[23648]: Initialization Sequence Completed
Thank you in advance for any help!