It was announced that ibVPN will become (is) part of StrongVPN. I received an email today that my account will be migrated to StrongVPN soon. I assume it means for the ibVPN app to keep working an update is needed to support StrongVPN. Does anyone know if this is in the plans?
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I think I have cracked a manual hack.
Firstly, get your VPN username and password from the StrongVPN site > VPN Accounts > VPN Account Summary > Account Setup Instructions. These should be put into /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/passwd.
On the same page, note the Get Configuration button. Choose your endpoint country and city and go for a UDP/1194 configuration and download the OpenVPN (you could go for the generic config but then there is more playing around to be done as you have more files and a slightly different config). Save this config as /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/ibvpn.ovpn
Then adjust the config to:
Note the lines I have commented out and the ones I have added. The remote lines should change depending on which endpoint you go for. I think all the rest stays the same.auth sha256
#auth-user-pass
cipher AES-256-CBC
client
comp-lzo adaptive
#dev tun
explicit-exit-notify 2
hand-window 30
key-direction 1
mute 3
mute-replay-warnings
#nobind
ns-cert-type server
persist-key
proto udp
redirect-gateway def1
remote str-bom101.strongconnectivity.com 1194 udp
resolv-retry infinite
route-delay 2
#route-method exe
#route-metric 1
topology subnet
tun-mtu 1400
verb 3
# lines added by NJH
remote str-bom101.strongconnectivity.com 53 udp
remote str-bom101.strongconnectivity.com 123 udp
remote str-bom101.strongconnectivity.com 443 udp
remote str-bom101.strongconnectivity.com 8293 udp
dev ibvpn
dev-type tun
persist-tun
auth-user-pass /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/passwd
route-delay 2
route-noexec
script-security 2
down /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/route-down.sh
route-up /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/route-up.sh
writepid /var/run/ibvpn/ibvpn.pid
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEujCCA6KgAwIBAgIJAP2byCrrNyEqMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMIGZMQswCQYD
<snip>
7KTGEVuqCHkf5fO4Tvs=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
<tls-auth>
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
9ad93b30b80622e4a0cec0349d004c1b
<snip>
3bd59ca7723fd17d76fa1034dccb4cf3
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
</tls-auth>
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Hi Nick,
I received an email that stated:
Your service will be transferred over to StrongVPN automatically, and your subscription cost will remain the same so long as your account remains active. After your account is successfully migrated, the StrongVPN team will reach out with further instructions.
So there appears to be a migration, which is also mentioned here:
Welcome ibVPN
Cheers,
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I have seen nothing yet to say we have to migrate and that the connection using the ibVPN set up will be stopping. If it does, I expect there will be an announcement and we will act accordingly. Note this is a third party app and not a Clearcenter maintained app, but we are in contact with the developers of it. -
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Today I received another email from ibvpn:
Now that ibVPN users have been migrated over to StrongVPN, it is time to begin shutting down ibVPN itself.
Starting Monday November 23rd, ibVPN will no longer function. Please ensure you have completed the StrongVPN password email reset so you may begin taking advantage of StrongVPN + DNS. If you have not received a password reset email from StrongVPN check your spam folder or reach out to the StrongVPN support team.
Thank you for choosing ibVPN as your VPN of choice, and we look forward to continuing to serve you as StrongVPN.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to our support team here.
The ibVPN Team
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I got it working!
I updated my new username and password in the ibvpn "app" the editing my settings.json to below.
also not, i used TCP and different port. make sure to open port in firewall.
client
auth sha256
auth-user-pass
cipher AES-256-CBC
auth-user-pass /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/passwd
comp-lzo adaptive
#dev tun
proto tcp
hand-window 30
key-direction 1
mute 3
#nobind
ns-cert-type server
persist-key
redirect-gateway def1
remote str-yyz302.strongconnectivity.com 8293 tcp
resolv-retry infinite
route-delay 2
#route-method exe
#route-metric 1
topology subnet
tun-mtu 1400
verb 3
dev ibvpn
dev-type tun
persist-tun
route-delay 2
route-noexec
script-security 2
down /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/route-down.sh
route-up /etc/clearos/ibvpn.d/route-up.sh
writepid /var/run/ibvpn/ibvpn.pid
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
Put cert here
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</ca>
<tls-auth>
-----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
Put auth here
-----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
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Generally TCP is not recommended for VPN's because of what happens when packets go missing then get requested for re-transmission. Feel free to google it.
There is also no need to open the firewall as it is an outgoing connection, unless you have put in addition blocks in the OUTPUT chain of the firewall.
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