Newbie question on utorrent and AirVPN - bits of my PC are fighting other bits

[LNK29041 0]

My system:

Win 7 enterprise (64 bit)

Utorrent (3.1.3)

OnlineArmour Premium V6 firewall.

Installed Open VPN and Air client. I can start Air and log in without problems. As soon as I start utorrent, it will run for a minute of so and then hang. This seems to take down the Air client as it says it's not connected and tries to reconnect. It can't as the TAP-win 32 connector of Open VN also seems to have crashed and knocked the internet access completely off line. OnlineArmour joins the fun and starts eating 25% of the clock cycles on it's own. Rebooting the pc will not get TAP 32 or the internet connection to work again. The only way I've found to get back on line is to go into safe mode and uninstall Open VN. This seems to reset my internet back to the standard network connector.

Obviously, something in my setup is not correct, but I don't know enough about VPN to figure it out. Any help appreciated.

[Staff 9972]

@LNK29041

Hello!

Is the issue occurring also with Online Armour completely disabled?

Kind regards

[LNK29041 0]

To be honest, I haven't tried - I don't want to surf the net without a firewall. Do you think that OA is taking out utorrent, the Air client and the Tap-win 32 ?

[Staff 9972]

To be honest, I haven't tried - I don't want to surf the net without a firewall. Do you think that OA is taking out utorrent, the Air client and the Tap-win 32 ?

Hello!

Without seeing its rules, it's an option that can't be disregarded. Just perform a test for a VPN connection.

Kind regards

[LNK29041 0]

This is my log from starting up pre-utorrent :

07/12/2012 - 19:19 AirVPN client version: 1.7

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Reading options from C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Roaming\AirVPN\Air\1.0.0.0\AirVPN.xml

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OpenVPN bundle version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OpenVPN current version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Ready.

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Login...

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Login success.

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Contacting service...

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Connecting...

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [sSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011

07/12/2012 - 19:19 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables

07/12/2012 - 19:19 LZO compression initialized

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:1450 EF:58 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '22188c5b'

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'a8f55717'

07/12/2012 - 19:19 UDPv4 link local: [undef]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 UDPv4 link remote: 46.165.208.70:443

07/12/2012 - 19:19 TLS: Initial packet from 46.165.208.70:443, sid=86fce28b db80fd49

07/12/2012 - 19:19 VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=airvpn.org_CA/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

07/12/2012 - 19:19 VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER

07/12/2012 - 19:19 VERIFY OK: depth=0, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=server/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA

07/12/2012 - 19:19 [server] Peer Connection Initiated with 46.165.208.70:443

07/12/2012 - 19:19 SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)

07/12/2012 - 19:19 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1,dhcp-option DNS 10.4.0.1,comp-lzo no,route 10.4.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 10.4.2.170 10.4.2.169'

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OPTIONS IMPORT: LZO parms modified

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified

07/12/2012 - 19:19 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified

07/12/2012 - 19:19 ROUTE default_gateway=192.168.2.1

07/12/2012 - 19:19 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \\.\Global\{52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C}.tap

07/12/2012 - 19:19 TAP-Win32 Driver Version 9.9

07/12/2012 - 19:19 TAP-Win32 MTU=1500

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.4.2.170/255.255.255.252 on interface {52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C} [DHCP-serv: 10.4.2.169, lease-time: 31536000]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Successful ARP Flush on interface [32] {52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C}

07/12/2012 - 19:19 TEST ROUTES: 2/2 succeeded len=1 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up

07/12/2012 - 19:19 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 46.165.208.70 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.1

07/12/2012 - 19:19 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=20 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 0.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.2.169

07/12/2012 - 19:19 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 128.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.2.169

07/12/2012 - 19:19 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 10.4.0.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.4.2.169

07/12/2012 - 19:19 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Initialization Sequence Completed

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Starting Management Interface...

07/12/2012 - 19:19 Checking...

07/12/2012 - 19:20 Retrieve statistics...

07/12/2012 - 19:20 Connected.

The TAP-win32 adapter says it's connected, so I think I have a connection

[LNK29041 0]

This is the connection log :

07/12/2012 - 20:20 AirVPN client version: 1.7

07/12/2012 - 20:20 Reading options from C:\Users\Internet\AppData\Roaming\AirVPN\Air\1.0.0.0\AirVPN.xml

07/12/2012 - 20:20 OpenVPN bundle version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

07/12/2012 - 20:20 OpenVPN current version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

07/12/2012 - 20:20 Ready.

07/12/2012 - 20:20 Login...

07/12/2012 - 20:20 Login success.

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Contacting service...

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Connecting...

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [sSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011

07/12/2012 - 20:21 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables

07/12/2012 - 20:21 LZO compression initialized

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:1450 EF:58 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Local Options hash (VER=V4): '22188c5b'

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'a8f55717'

07/12/2012 - 20:21 UDPv4 link local: [undef]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 UDPv4 link remote: 31.193.12.74:443

07/12/2012 - 20:21 TLS: Initial packet from 31.193.12.74:443, sid=7f30dcf0 d33f0e19

07/12/2012 - 20:21 VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=airvpn.org_CA/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

07/12/2012 - 20:21 VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER

07/12/2012 - 20:21 VERIFY OK: depth=0, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=server/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA

07/12/2012 - 20:21 [server] Peer Connection Initiated with 31.193.12.74:443

07/12/2012 - 20:21 SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)

07/12/2012 - 20:21 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1,dhcp-option DNS 10.4.0.1,comp-lzo no,route 10.4.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 10.4.22.102 10.4.22.101'

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OPTIONS IMPORT: LZO parms modified

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified

07/12/2012 - 20:21 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified

07/12/2012 - 20:21 ROUTE default_gateway=192.168.2.1

07/12/2012 - 20:21 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \\.\Global\{52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C}.tap

07/12/2012 - 20:21 TAP-Win32 Driver Version 9.9

07/12/2012 - 20:21 TAP-Win32 MTU=1500

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.4.22.102/255.255.255.252 on interface {52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C} [DHCP-serv: 10.4.22.101, lease-time: 31536000]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Successful ARP Flush on interface [23] {52EA990F-DFB1-4629-9E0B-E78643EB2F5C}

07/12/2012 - 20:21 TEST ROUTES: 2/2 succeeded len=1 ret=1 a=0 u/d=up

07/12/2012 - 20:21 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 31.193.12.74 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.2.1

07/12/2012 - 20:21 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=20 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 0.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.22.101

07/12/2012 - 20:21 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 128.0.0.0 MASK 128.0.0.0 10.4.22.101

07/12/2012 - 20:21 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 10.4.0.1 MASK 255.255.255.255 10.4.22.101

07/12/2012 - 20:21 ROUTE: CreateIpForwardEntry succeeded with dwForwardMetric1=30 and dwForwardType=4

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Initialization Sequence Completed

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Starting Management Interface...

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Checking...

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Retrieve statistics...

07/12/2012 - 20:21 Connected.

I downloaded and installed OpenVPN 2.2.2, which seems to solve the problem of Tap win 32 dying and the OA high CPU use, but utorrent still locks up. It's seems to create a hung process that just won't be killed. Firewall confirms that Tap32 is an active interface