Using Airport Extreme BS with VPN

[CaptainCalvin1987]

So i have my HDA setup with a static IP, not a problem. I am trying to get the VPN to work so i can access it from outside my home network. On my Airport Extreme under Port Mapping is has
Public UDP:(Set to 1194, like Amahi wants)
Public TCP: (Blank)
Private IP Adress: (I put HDA's static IP)
Private UDP: (Set to 1194, like Amahi wants)
Public UDP: (Blank)

Now when i go into my Control Panel and check the VPN Connection it says its inactive.

I don't know what im doing wrong what i need to do to get it going. Any assistance would be nice.

[gboudreau]

You port mapping appears to be correct.
Make sure there is no typo in the HDA IP adress.

Some things you can check on the HDA:
Check that OpenVPN is running:

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service openvpn status

Answer should be

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Status written to /var/log/messages

and not

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openvpn: service not started

Check that UDP port 1194 is listening:

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netstat -an | grep "udp.*:1194"

should return

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udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1194 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

If all that works, maybe it's just the status check in your profile that hasn't been updated yet. Not sure how often it's updated... Might be daily.

[CaptainCalvin1987]

All of those were correct. The only thing is when i checked with netstat, it didn't say "LISTEN" at the end but everything else was spot on.

Thanks

[boulder240]

That is the exact same thing for me. It just doesn't say listen.