ANSWERED Connecting through squid proxy

[huckfinn 1]

I am new to AirVPN and VPNs in general.

 

Last night I was able to connect to the service using my home computer without any problems.

 

Today I am trying to connect using my office computer which passes through a network squid proxy but I have not been successful.

 

As I looked at the programs installed by AirVPN I see that there are two: OpenVPN GUI and Air VPN. Both have settings for proxies. I've tried a combination of settings but nothing seems to work.

 

AirVPN proxy setting activated + OpenVPN proxy setting activated (system settings)

- Connection fails almost immediately. Log:

 

05/09/2013 - 10.39    Login...    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    Login success.    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    Contacting service...    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    Connecting...    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    xy MUST be used in TCP Client mode (i.e. --proto tcp-client)    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    mation.    
05/09/2013 - 10.39    Failed to start.    
 

AirVPN proxy setting None + OpenVPN proxy setting activated (system settings)

- Connection attempt continues for a long time, without success. Log:

 

 

05/09/2013 - 10.44    Login...    
05/09/2013 - 10.44    Login success.    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    Contacting service...    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    Connecting...    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    OpenVPN 2.3.0 i686-w64-mingw32 [sSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [iPv6] built on Jan  8 2013    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    UDPv4 link local: [undef]    
05/09/2013 - 10.45    UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]119.81.1.122:443    
05/09/2013 - 10.46    TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)    
05/09/2013 - 10.46    TLS Error: TLS handshake failed    

 

AirVPN proxy setting None + OpenVPN proxy setting "Use OpenVPN config-file"

- Connection attempt continues for a long time, without success.

- I use port 80 thinking that it can more easily tunnel through the proxy. Log:

 

05/09/2013 - 10.48    Login...    

05/09/2013 - 10.48    Login success.    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    Contacting service...    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    Connecting...    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    OpenVPN 2.3.0 i686-w64-mingw32 [sSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [iPv6] built on Jan  8 2013    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    UDPv4 link local: [undef]    
05/09/2013 - 10.48    UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]119.81.1.122:80    
05/09/2013 - 10.49    TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)    
05/09/2013 - 10.49    TLS Error: TLS handshake failed    
 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

[Staff 9750]

Hello!

 

You need to use TCP to connect to a proxy: just pick a TCP port. Socks and http proxies do not support UDP.

 

Kind regards

[huckfinn 1]

Ok, now it works. Thanks!

 

I have configured both the AirVPN and OpenVPN for connection through the proxy.

 

Then when I open the connection, I chose a TCP port. It takes a bit of time to complete the connection (much longer than when I connect from home), but it works.

 

The unexpected bonus is that I can configure one browser (i.e., Firefox) to use the company proxy so I'm using my company network and another browser/program (i.e., Chrome, uTorrent) to not use the company proxy and these pass through the VPN. So I can do two things at the same time.

 

Very nice.

 

Thanks again!