Francisco,
Try switching to TCP 443 to sidestep hotels and other providers that
block VPN. I've had more success with that.
Leonardo,
You will want to create two VPN connections through the Network
dropdown via VPN Settings. The first uses weaker encryption but will
allow a connection over a common unrestricted port. This is useful in
hotels and coffee shops that filter traffic. The second connection
will be more secure and should be used exclusively whenever possible.
Download both of these certificates to your phablet/Documents folder:
http://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/ca.crt
http://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/ca.rsa.4096.crt
*Connection 1: This will use the BF-CBC cipher over port 443 and work
anywhere.*
Server: italy.privateinternetaccess.com
<http://italy.privateinternetaccess.com>
Use Custom Gateway Port: Checked
Port: 443
All network connections: Checked
Type: OpenVPN
Protocol: TCP
Authentication Type: Password
Username and Password for your PIA account
CA Certificate: ca.crt (Browse to the file that you downloaded)
Cipher: default
Compress data: checked
*Connection 2: For normal *AES-256-CBC
Everything is the same except:
Port: 501
CA Certificate: ca.rsa.4096.crt (Browse to the file that you downloaded)
Cipher: AES-256-CBC
After you are connected to PIA, make sure that you're using the
correct cipher. Open the terminal and run:
grep -i cipher /var/log/syslog
Something is configured incorrectly if you see: "WARNING: 'cipher' is
used inconsistently, local='cipher AES-256-CBC', remote='cipher BF-CBC'"
If nothing shows up in the syslog when connecting with Connection 2,
you have connected successfully with AES-256-CBC
Connection 1 will negotiate to use BF-CBC and that will show up as a
WARNING in the syslog. That is to be expected.
For more information on the different certificates and ports:
https://helpdesk.privateinternetaccess.com/hc/en-us/articles/225274288-Which-encryption-auth-settings-should-I-use-for-ports-on-your-gateways-
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Francisco Pina Martins
<f.pinamartins@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:f.pinamartins@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I have my OpenVPN connection working on my BQ Aquaris E4.5 OTA13.
I can use it both as a local connection (which only gets used for
resources on my VNP network), or as a fully tunnelled connection,
effectively hiding my traffic from whatever operator I'm connected to.
I have, altough, noticed that on some operators (eg. some hotel
wifi connections) if I use the tunnel, the connection gets dropped
almost immediately.
The issue you are experiencing, though seems to be a missing
"secret". You can try to edit the file with your VPN connection
name in the directory:
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
That should give you some more options to deal with.
Best,
Francisco
On 14-11-2016 21:45, Leonardo Donelli wrote:
Hey guys,
Did anyone manage to setup Private Internet Access VPN with Ubuntu
Touch? (OTA-13)
I've tried various ways that I've found online but no lack,
the vpn
connections fails immediately with a notification: "The VPN
Connection
<> failed because there were no valid VP.." (truncated)
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