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asterisktom
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At least, I hope there is a second opinion on this diagnosis I was given.
I have been using VPN out of necessity here in China where I work. Very recently my access has now been quite effectively blocked by the gov. here. Before it was just intermittent. I was told by my provider to change to a non-USA gateway, since they seem to be particularly targeted. I tried to do this, setting it up with a European gateway.
But I was not able to set it up. In the terminal I typed and then received this message:
sudo openvpn --config/home/tom/Desktop/my_expressvpn_germany_-_frankfurt_udp.ovpn
Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: config /home/tom/Desktop/my_expressvpn_germany_-_frankfurt_udp.ovpn
After several interchanges with my service's rep (who admitted that he wasn't well-versed in Linux Mint) I was told that
"It seems we have exhausted every possible resolution to your terminal issue. I won't be able to guarantee though if OpenVPN will work reliably for you, as China is able to throttle OpenVPN connections. also, we have recently updated our PPTP./L2TP servers new IPs. You may want to try PPTP connection once more and try out the various server addresses. Lastly, please be advised that our VPN clients for other platforms such as Windows, Mac and Android 4 remains unaffected by the blocking. If you have any of these devices, I suggest that you try the ExpressVPN app."
I do believe this gentleman tried very hard to help me. My point is not to criticize him. But I wonder if what he said wasn't mistaken.
Is this just some technical Linux-related snag? And is it really true Linux OS is harder for setting up and maintaining VPN here in China?
Any help is appreciated.
Tom
I have been using VPN out of necessity here in China where I work. Very recently my access has now been quite effectively blocked by the gov. here. Before it was just intermittent. I was told by my provider to change to a non-USA gateway, since they seem to be particularly targeted. I tried to do this, setting it up with a European gateway.
But I was not able to set it up. In the terminal I typed and then received this message:
sudo openvpn --config/home/tom/Desktop/my_expressvpn_germany_-_frankfurt_udp.ovpn
Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [CMD-LINE]:1: config /home/tom/Desktop/my_expressvpn_germany_-_frankfurt_udp.ovpn
After several interchanges with my service's rep (who admitted that he wasn't well-versed in Linux Mint) I was told that
"It seems we have exhausted every possible resolution to your terminal issue. I won't be able to guarantee though if OpenVPN will work reliably for you, as China is able to throttle OpenVPN connections. also, we have recently updated our PPTP./L2TP servers new IPs. You may want to try PPTP connection once more and try out the various server addresses. Lastly, please be advised that our VPN clients for other platforms such as Windows, Mac and Android 4 remains unaffected by the blocking. If you have any of these devices, I suggest that you try the ExpressVPN app."
I do believe this gentleman tried very hard to help me. My point is not to criticize him. But I wonder if what he said wasn't mistaken.
Is this just some technical Linux-related snag? And is it really true Linux OS is harder for setting up and maintaining VPN here in China?
Any help is appreciated.
Tom