Routing/Excluded networks option does NOT work at all

[birdie-github]

This ticket was initially titled: "Trying to use OpenVPN via an SSH Socks Proxy doesn't work"

I will provide all the necessary information, but first, I'd love you to try to reproduce it on your end because it could be a bug in a different application, not necessarily in OpenVPN.

My setup:

• Some popular VPN provider
• OpenVPN 0.7.51
• ConnectBot 1.9.10

1. In ConnectBot I create an SSH connection to IP 1.2.3.4 and for this host (right click the connection, click "Edit Port Forwards", create a "Dynamic (SOCKS)" connection, source port 1080/8080/whatever you like, over 1024).
2. In OpenVPN I create a connection to my VPN provider:

• Server: vpnprovider.com port XXX, protocol:TCP
• Proxy: Socksv5, server address: localhost, port 1080/8080/whatever (the same as in the previous step)
• In Routing under IPv4 I add 1.2.3.4/32 to Excluded Networks.

So, here's what's going on:

1. In ConnectBot I connect to 1.2.3.4 with Dynamic (SOCKS) forwarding
2. I initiate a new connection in OpenVPN

At this point the connection to 1.2.3.4 in ConnectBot gets lost/reset and nothing works.

I wonder where the issue could be. Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

[schwabe]

Sorry replying so late to the ticket but can you add the log from in the app to see if there is something in the log that would explain this?

[birdie-github]

From the log:

socks_proxy_server = '[UNDEF]'
socks_proxy_port = '[UNDEF]'

The app simply ignores my socks v5 proxy settings:

I've no idea what to do.

[schwabe]

Please give the full log. The proxies are handled via management interface and NOT via the config that is printed on startup like you quoted.