No Ip assignment upon connection to VPN gateway

[myairact 3]

Hi,

 

Using Windows 8.1.  I am a new user and I am have not been able to connect to VPN using the AirVPN client nor OpenVPN with config files.

 

The log files/route table show that I am connecting to VPN gateway but assigned IP is APIPA, 169.254.x.x

 

TEST ROUTES: 0/0 succeeded len=2 ret=0 a=0 u/d=down
 Route: Waiting for TUN/TAP interface to come up...

 

and

 

Initialization Sequence Completed With Errors ( see http://openvpn.net/faq.html#dhcpclientserv )
MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1415642931,CONNECTED,ERROR,10.4.91.54,198.144.158.11

 

Have added to the client config:

route-method exe
route-delay 5 120
route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

 

And  I have reset winsock and TCP/IP.  Restarted DHCP service.  Tun/Tap adapter changed to always on.

 

Please help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Staff 9973]

Hello!

 

In spite of your correct operations, the tun/tap adapter still does not come up. Please re-check everything, including possible antivirus or security programs that could be blocking access to the network interfaces or anyway to system files. Is the DHCP client service running?

 

Kind regards

[myairact 3]

Follow-up:  AIRVPN accessible, TAP adapter working

 

Stumbled upon solution (for others who have win 8.1 + OpenVpn):

Open the *Properties* of the TAP adapter to IPv4 settings, leave it open as you are connecting using OpenVpn.  Just having the properties settings open -- no settings changes -- seems to activate the adapter, I get a DHCP IP assignment and correct routing.

 

-this worked even though I had adapter set to "always connected" as some suggested

-this worked even though I had opened Network and Sharing Center as many suggested.

 

Hope this helps someone else on Win 7 or 8 having connection errors.

 

 

Edit:  In TAP adapter's IPv4 Properties, I do have Airvpn's DNS servers set, but iP assignment is left on automatic.