No internet access when trying to use AirVPN with the Linux network manager configuration

[ilikeprivacy 1]

Hello,

 

I bought the 3 days plan today to test AirVPN, I would like to use it with no additional software on an Ubuntu LTS (16.04) based Linux distribution and Mint as DE.

I used these instructions:

https://airvpn.org/topic/11416-using-airvpn-with-debian-network-manager-not-recommended/

All the steps worked fine, I can connect to AirVPN, the network manager as well as /var/log/syslog show that the connection is successfully established.

But as long as I'm connected to AirVPN it's not possible to access the internet anymore. However DNS seems to work, if I ping a website the IP it tries to ping shows up, but the ping itself doesn't work.

The only thing I can get a ping back is the AirVPN server I'm connecting to.

 

I searched for the problem, it looks like someone already had the same problem but it wasn't resolved in this thread:

https://airvpn.org/topic/22147-connection-established-but-no-internet-mint-181/

 

tun0 sends data but there it stays at 0 rx-bytes.

 

route -n shows the following:

0.0.0.0         10.4.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    50     0        0 tun0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    100    0        0 eth0
10.4.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     50     0        0 tun0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 docker0
172.17.0.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 docker0
185.104.184.…  192.168.0.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   100    0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     100    0        0 eth0

I tried the Eddie client on another device and it works in the same network here, but I would like to be able to use the VPN without additional software.

[Flavorum 1]

I had similar issues on Ubuntu. You can use the terminal as a workaround: 

 

sudo OpenVPN your_config.ovpn

 

Cofig Generator: https://airvpn.org/generator/

[ilikeprivacy 1]

I had similar issues on Ubuntu. You can use the terminal as a workaround: 

 

sudo OpenVPN your_config.ovpn

 

Cofig Generator: https://airvpn.org/generator/

 

Thank you, that works with exactly the same config files which I've tried with the network manager before.

 

I thought that the network-manager-openvpn-gnome package would use OpenVPN in the same way.

However there are differences with the routing, the first one is the network manager one:

default via 10.4.0.1 dev tun0  proto static  metric 50 
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0  proto static  metric 100 
10.4.0.0/16 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.4.9.7  metric 50 
169.254.0.0/16 dev docker0  scope link  metric 1000 linkdown 
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.17.0.1 linkdown 
185.189.112.10 via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0  proto static  metric 100 
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.104  metric 100

And this is the one when OpenVPN is ran from the console:

0.0.0.0/1 via 10.4.0.1 dev tun0 
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0  proto static  metric 100 
10.4.0.0/16 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.4.9.137 
128.0.0.0/1 via 10.4.0.1 dev tun0 
169.254.0.0/16 dev docker0  scope link  metric 1000 linkdown 
172.17.0.0/16 dev docker0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.17.0.1 linkdown 
185.189.112.26 via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.104  metric 100 

I still would like to use the network manager, any ideas how to fix it?