Transmission and OpenVPN (PIA)

[arggonuts]

Hello all,

First post and trust me, I've done my homework as far as I am technically up to speed to do. I've spent the past 6 hours trying to troubleshoot this. The issue started either after the latest update to FreeNAS or to Transmission, but either way this wouldn't be an isolated incident if it were that...

ANYWAYS, In a nutshell, I've have Transmission working on OpenVPN in the same jail (just tunneling Transmission traffic) for over a year. I used the guide and the script here to set it up initially to my satisfaction.

I have tested my PIA credentials on my personal computer (Win7) and it works fine though the OpenVPN client. Also of note, the server is behind a double NAT, but it has worked before.

So the problem now is this:

Code:

Jun 26 19:19:09 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: WARNING: file 'pass.txt' is group or others accessible
Jun 26 19:19:09 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Jun 26 19:19:09 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]66.55.144.180:1194
Jun 26 19:19:09 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Jun 26 19:19:09 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: [Private Internet Access] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]66.55.144.180:1194
Jun 26 19:19:12 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
Jun 26 19:19:12 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Jun 26 19:19:12 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.114.1.6 10.114.1.5 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
Jun 26 19:19:12 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: FreeBSD ifconfig failed: external program exited with error status: 1
Jun 26 19:19:12 transmission_1 openvpn[56619]: Exiting due to fatal error

I think the problem is in line 8 with the tunnel not correctly assigning the Transmission jail's internal IP, which should be 192.168.2.230, or at least that's the line the problem lies in.

What I have tried is a script-less install of OpenVPN via portsnap and via pkg install openvpn. Configuring everything the same, which is just utilizing the US East.ovpn as my openvpn.conf.

I am at my limit of patience and skill here and I'm hoping one of you gurus can help me.

 

[dlavigne]

Were you able to figure this out?

 

[arggonuts]

Unfortunately I have not figured this out. I plan on spending some more time on this over the next couple days to see if there was a magical patch that fixed it.

 

[arggonuts]

I solved it and it's my own fault. I had a drive in my pool failing. After I replaced it, the transmission/openvpn script by jafrey worked flawless.