Dear all, I tying to connect my suse 10.1 to a VPN, but can't get the TSL handshake to work. firewalls are disable, port 1194 is being forward from modem/router, still same error.. any hints? I tested from a windows machines using the same software and connects ok. Here is the linux console: tp:/home/tino/Desktop/xcore # openvpn --config client.config Mon Feb 19 12:44:58 2007 OpenVPN 2.0.5 x86_64-suse-linux [SSL] [LZO] [EPOLL] built on Apr 23 2006 Enter Auth Username:XXXXXXXXXX Enter Auth Password: XXXXXXXXXXX Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port. Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info. Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 WARNING: file 'ta.key' is group or others accessible Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Control Channel Authentication: using 'ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 LZO compression initialized Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:166 EF:66 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ] Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:1450 EF:58 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ] Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '272f1b58' Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'a2e63101' Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 UDPv4 link local: [undef] Mon Feb 19 12:45:10 2007 UDPv4 link remote: x.x.x.x:1194 Mon Feb 19 12:46:10 2007 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) Mon Feb 19 12:46:10 2007 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed Mon Feb 19 12:46:10 2007 TCP/UDP: Closing socket (CTRL+C) stoped! How do i troubleshoot this? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org