David Kremer
Occasional Visitor
@ColinTaylor I sent you another occurrence of this bug with full logs
Why don't you create a script that will stop/start the VPN server after your router reboots as suggested in this thread... Here's another recent thread about something similar:FYI everyone this bug still exists.. It looks to be several years old, and happens on many different ASUS Merlin versions and devices.
The way to reproduce is always the same:
- router shuts down due to electricity outage (happens often in my area), OR the router is rebooted via the scheduled reboot (bug below happens in either case)
- router reboots
- router usually has the correct time from NTP, but not always (bug below happens in either case)
- cannot connect to VPN from client
- in the Merlin UI, (under VPN settings, Export OpenVPN configuration file) it says: Initialinzing the settings of OpenVPN server now, please wait a few minutes to let the server to setup completed before VPN clients establish the connection.
- this message never goes away and it looks stuck
- the solution is to turn the VPN off, save changes, then turn VPN on again
- now client can connect to VPN
Unfortunately this bug means every time the electricity goes out I have to manually log into the firmware, turn off the VPN, turn it on again.
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