Building with verbose logging enabled

[midders3]

Hi there

I'm a long time programmer, but new to github. Can anyone tell me what the preferred method is for building with verbose logging enabled in the openvpn client? I'm trying to troubleshoot a VPN connection that won't cooperate.

Slainte

midders3

[dsommers]

If you try to build openvpn3-linux, you can get a lot of debug info by boosting the log levels to 6. First, start with increasing the overall log level in the openvpn3-service-logger:

 # openvpn3-admin log-service --log-level 6

Then, depending on how you start the VPN session there are more alternatives:

 $ openvpn2 --config CONFIG_FILE --verb 6

or edit the "CONFIG_FILE" to include verb 6

or import the configuration file and change the log-level setting on the imported profile:

 $ openvpn3 config-import --config CONFIG_FILE  --name myvpn
 $ openvpn3 config-manage --config myvpn --log-level 6
 $ openvpn3 session-start --config myvpn

or on an already running VPN session:

 $ openvpn3 session-manage --config CONFIG_NAME --log-level=6

And you can also retrieve run-time log events this way:

 $ openvpn3 log --config CONFIG_NAME

For building openvpn3-linux yourself, there are a few options worth looking into when running the ./configure script.

• --enable-debug-options ... adds more options suitable for debugging
• --enable-debug-core-events ... Adds more low-level debug log events coming from the OpenVPN 3 Core library.

There are a few more, but they goes far more into the aspects of development debugging, not admin/user debugging. You can anyhow see all of these options running ./configure --help.

[midders3]

Thanks for the comprehensive response.

With the help of my VPN provider, eventually traced the problem to my ISP providing a restricted network (b*$&*%$s) and found a few ports that they don't restrict. Mentioning no names TalkTalk.