Question

The connection with client1 has fallen

As I was following: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-22-04 and everything worked as expected, connecting from a Windows machine pop ups the tittle error. Meanwhile connecting from an Android Devide pops

Failed to parse profile: crypto_alg: SHA256key-direction: not found

Any guess about what went wrong?


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Bobby Iliev
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December 22, 2022

Hi there,

The error message that you are getting indicates that there is a problem with the crypto_alg directive in your OpenVPN configuration file.

There are a few things you can try to troubleshoot this issue:

  • Check the syntax of your configuration file. Make sure that there are no errors or typos in the file.

  • Check the version of OpenVPN that you are using. Some older versions of OpenVPN may not support the crypto_alg directive. If this is the case, you will need to update to a newer version of OpenVPN.

  • Check the client configuration file. Make sure that the client configuration file is correctly specifying the key-direction option.

  • Check the server logs. The OpenVPN server logs may contain additional information about the error. You can find the server logs in the /var/log/openvpn.log file.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

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