I am having an issue with my openvpn server, running Debian Wheezy x64, and my client, running Ubuntu 14.10 x64. It seems no matter what configurations I try, I get this error, over and over, a couple times per minute at least:
Mon Mar 9 22:14:10 2015 Authenticate/Decrypt packet error: packet HMAC authentication failed
Mon Mar 9 22:14:10 2015 TLS Error: incoming packet authentication failed from [AF_INET] x.x.x.(clientip)
I am using this configuration on the server:
local x.x.x.x
port xxxx
proto udp
dev tun
ca /etc/openvpn/.certs/ca.crt
cert /etc/openvpn/.certs/[email protected]
key /etc/openvpn/.certs/[email protected]
dh /etc/openvpn/.certs/dh.pem
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
client-config-dir clients
client-to-client
keepalive 7 80
tls-auth /etc/openvpn/.certs/ta.key 0
cipher AES-128-CBC
comp-lzo
max-clients 3
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
log openvpn.log
verb 3
tun-mtu 1500
auth SHA256
And on the client, the configuration is managed by network-manager, but I have the key direction correct, the correct tls certificate, a matching mtu, the auth SHA256 directive, and it's set to verify the DN, etc... Is there something I am missing?
I tried different auth ciphers, regenerating the tls key (with --gen-key --secret ta.key), and the error persists. The VPN works okay, although my speeds are slightly lower than they ought to be. Any help would be appreciated.