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whenever I use tls-auth, the following error message appears. Anyone knows what's wrong or how to fix it? Thanks in advance
Fri Nov 28 22:23:29 2014 TLS: Initial packet from 192.168.1.1:1194, sid=8cdfff92 650682b1
Fri Nov 28 22:23:29 2014 TLS Error: cannot locate HMAC in incoming packet from 192.168.10.1:1195
Is your tls-auth key the same on all clients?
https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-sour … l#security
This command will generate an OpenVPN static key and write it to the file ta.key. This key should be copied over a pre-existing secure channel to the server and all client machines. It can be placed in the same directory as the RSA .key and .crt files.
In the server configuration, add:
tls-auth ta.key 0
In the client configuration, add:
tls-auth ta.key 1(Last edited by sailor_ca on 28 Nov 2014, 18:46)
Yes, both the server and all clients have the same tls-auth key.
Sorry. Assuming you created the key using openvpn per the instructions
openvpn --genkey --secret ta.keyI don't have any other suggestions 
The only time I got this error was with a key problem.
When I get a chance I'll enable tls-auth on a new install to see if the documentation works for me.
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