but for some reason openvpn is giving me a problem. although it says its installed in luci, when I search for it where it should be using the command line in putty I can't find it and as a result I'm not able to continue following the guide.
Also it seems to be related to this part of the command line entry:
the reason I know that is because open vpn does install and I am able to find it after using another command from another guide I found online like this:
Yes I started a ticket on Saturday. They only just responded today. All they had to say however was that they were going to escalate it to their advanced tech team, so I’m back to waiting.
Yes I’ve done that. It simply seems to be that open vpn does not get installed in the /etc/ directory upon completing the command in the pia guide. I’ve typed in opkg find openvpn to see what is available and have experimented with the ones that are. One that does create the directory in /etc/ is openvpn-mbedtls. I experimented with using the pia guide to a t while also adding that package to see if it would work. I got to the end and can’t start the connection. Maybe with some modifications it would work like that, but I wouldn’t know how to go about that. Thanks for your help.
Out of curiosity, is it possible that the PIA guide for setting up LEDE was done on a previous version of LEDE and that for whatever reason the new version of LEDE is no longer compatible with that exact procedure? If so, where would I get an older version of LEDE? Just so I can try it out. Thanks again
I believe I've posted the complete set of uci commands and instructions to achieve working PIA OpenVPN connection somewhere on the old forum.
You should consider posting your /etc/config/openvpn, /etc/config/network and /etc/config/firewall files rather than links to guides you've tried to use. Also, wouldn't hurt to post the output of opkg list-installed.
config defaults
option syn_flood 1
option input ACCEPT
option output ACCEPT
option forward REJECT
# Uncomment this line to disable ipv6 rules
# option disable_ipv6 1
config zone
option name lan
list network 'lan'
option input ACCEPT
option output ACCEPT
option forward ACCEPT
config zone
option name wan
list network 'wan'
list network 'wan6'
option input REJECT
option output ACCEPT
option forward REJECT
option masq 1
option mtu_fix 1
config forwarding
option src lan
option dest wan
# We need to accept udp packets on port 68,
# see https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/4108
config rule
option name Allow-DHCP-Renew
option src wan
option proto udp
option dest_port 68
option target ACCEPT
option family ipv4
# Allow IPv4 ping
config rule
option name Allow-Ping
option src wan
option proto icmp
option icmp_type echo-request
option family ipv4
option target ACCEPT
uci set openvpn.provider.config='/etc/openvpn/ipvanish-US-Los-Angeles-lax-a01.ovpn # NOTE: use whatever your file is above.
The command line acts differently. It looks the same as when you use EOF. Only when I'm finished with the whole list of uci commands, and at the end enter uci commit, it doesn't close. The CLI stays the same as when I was entering the uci commands. Does anyone know how to finish/close that? I'm sure its just a simple command, but I don't know what it is. thanks