OpenVPN configuration help

[Scruffy90]

My router, an Asus rt-86u, supports being an OpenVPN server. At first I had it configure to only allow me to access my LAN whenever I connected to it. That worked fine.

 

Now however, I want to be able to route internet traffic through it as well. When the adjustment to allow internet traffic to be routed through my OpenVPN server and connect, my client devices always time out whenever they make a request to any web page. I am under the assumption that I did not configure something that should've been configured in my router.

 

Can anyone help me out?

 

Thanks!

[Oshino Shinobu]

Could you post the configuration file contents? Kind of hard to tell you what's wrong without knowing how it's set up. 

 

Could you also let us know your default gateway IP so we know where it is. Block any public facing IP addresses if you have any in the configuration. 

 

EDIT: looking a bit more into the configuration for OpenVPN, we shouldn't need your default gateway, so you can leave it out if you wish. 

[Scruffy90]

6 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Could you post the configuration file contents? Kind of hard to tell you what's wrong without knowing how it's set up. 

 

Could you also let us know your default gateway IP so we know where it is. Block any public facing IP addresses if you have any in the configuration. 

My default gateway ip is 192.168.50.1

And thats my configuration.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, Scruffy90 said:

My default gateway ip is 192.168.50.1

And thats my configuration.
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Try disabling respond to DNS in the settings. If that doesn't work, disable advertise DNS to clients as well get the clients to use their own DNS servers, through the VPN. 

 

I'd be interested to see if you can ping an IP address when connected to the VPN with the current config. Try 8.8.8.8.

[Scruffy90]

15 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Try disabling respond to DNS in the settings. If that doesn't work, disable advertise DNS to clients as well get the clients to use their own DNS servers, through the VPN. 

 

I'd be interested to see if you can ping an IP address when connected to the VPN with the current config. Try 8.8.8.8.

I will give this a shot and see what happens.

[Scruffy90]

48 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Try disabling respond to DNS in the settings. If that doesn't work, disable advertise DNS to clients as well get the clients to use their own DNS servers, through the VPN. 

 

I'd be interested to see if you can ping an IP address when connected to the VPN with the current config. Try 8.8.8.8.

I tried both configurations.

Chrome shows could not find DNS before immediately switching to cannot connect to page or a similar message.

 

I tried pinging 8.8.8.8 from the command prompt and I get request timed out

 

Also OpenVPN shows kb of data being sent out, but nothing coming in.

[Scruffy90]

I was able to figure it out. The issue dealt with compression. For some reason changing the compression method allowed full speeds into my own network