VPN start/stop confusion

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dschoen
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VPN start/stop confusion

Post by dschoen » Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:39 pm

Hi Folks,

When I run command:
>> sudo ./vpnclient start

I get the message:
SoftEther VPN Client service has been started.

But then if I immediately run:
./vpnclient stop

I get:
SoftEther VPN Client service has not yet been started.

I am confused by this behavior and wonder if this has something to do with failing to connect to my remote server.

Does anyone know whats going on?

jfmachado
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Joined: Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:09 pm

Re: VPN start/stop confusion

Post by jfmachado » Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:46 pm

I saw this once.

first of all, kill all the vpnserver processes.
Then, start the server. Take a look at the log output for the server (they're all inside vpnserver folder). If something's wrong, it will be there.

Take a look at the listeners at the configuration file. If you have another service running in one of this ports (for example, 443), the service may misbehave.

Regards,

Fernando

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