How to install and configure OpenVPN?
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Okay from the
rb5-modemservice it looks like you are connecting via. LTE just fine.The
rb5-flight-modemservice you're looking for has since been renamed torb5-modemso that's why you're not seeing it.Can you do a ping test to verify that the internet is working? i.e.
ping google.comsh-4.4# ping google.com PING google.com (142.250.79.238): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=0 ttl=114 time=63.395 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=1 ttl=114 time=63.037 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=2 ttl=114 time=62.547 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=3 ttl=114 time=66.664 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=4 ttl=114 time=63.391 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=5 ttl=114 time=64.499 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=6 ttl=114 time=68.028 ms 64 bytes from 142.250.79.238: icmp_seq=7 ttl=114 time=75.665 ms ^C--- google.com ping statistics --- 8 packets transmitted, 8 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 62.547/65.903/75.665/4.099 ms -
@Djalma-Ribeiro Okay perfect, now what is the output when you attempt to connect to the VPN with
openvpn --script-security 2 --config myfile.ovpnOptions error: In [CMD-LINE]:1: Error opening configuration file: /etc/openvpn/connector01_sao_paulo.ovpn
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Looks like your path is wrong, you're in
/etc/openvpn/openvpn@tom Hmm!!! Very well observed. I thought that was normal.
I copied the files to the openvpn folder and ran the command. Result:
/connector01_sao_paulo.ovpnpn# openvpn --script-security 2 --config /etc/openvpn/ Wed May 4 19:14:41 2022 OpenVPN 2.4.6 [git:HEAD/b3a7f452206607fb] aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on May 3 2022 Wed May 4 19:14:41 2022 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1 11 Sep 2018 Wed May 4 19:14:41 2022 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 256 bit message hash 'SHA256' for HMAC authentication Wed May 4 19:14:41 2022 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 256 bit message hash 'SHA256' for HMAC authentication Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]209.14.3.200:1194 Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 Socket Buffers: R=[1048576->1048576] S=[1048576->1048576] Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 NOTE: setsockopt TCP_NODELAY=1 failed Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 UDP link local: (not bound) Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]209.14.3.200:1194 Wed May 4 19:14:49 2022 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]209.14.3.200:1194, sid=02821386 53542aca Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 VERIFY OK: depth=1, CN=CloudVPN Prod CA Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 VERIFY KU OK Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 Validating certificate extended key usage Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 ++ Certificate has EKU (str) TLS Web Server Authentication, expects TLS Web Server Authentication Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 VERIFY EKU OK Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 VERIFY OK: depth=0, CN=br-gru-dc2-b1.cloud.openvpn.net Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 Control Channel: TLSv1.3, cipher TLSv1.3 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, 2048 bit RSA Wed May 4 19:14:50 2022 [br-gru-dc2-b1.cloud.openvpn.net] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]209.14.3.200:1194 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 SENT CONTROL [br-gru-dc2-b1.cloud.openvpn.net]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route-gateway 100.96.1.33,ifconfig 100.96.1.34 255.255.255.240,ifconfig-ipv6 fd:0:0:8102::2/64 fd:0:0:8102::1,client-ip 200.173.248.124,ping 8,ping-restart 40,reneg-sec 3600,cipher AES-256-GCM,compress stub-v2,peer-id 71,topology subnet,explicit-exit-notify,remote-cache-lifetime 86400,block-outside-dns,route 100.96.0.0 255.224.0.0,route-ipv6 fd:0:0:8000::/49,route 100.80.0.0 255.240.0.0,route-ipv6 fd:0:0:4000::/50,dhcp-option DNS 100.96.1.33,auth-tokenSESS_ID,auth-token-user b25lc29sdmUvY29ubmVjdG9yL2I5YzdiMDVhLTY2ODUtNDNlMS05NTU5LTFkNTdhZWFjYzM4Nl9kY2M3ODY2Ny1hNDFkLTRiNWYtYWE1Ni02MGEwZjE3NzNiYjI=' Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:4: client-ip (2.4.6) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Options error: option 'reneg-sec' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:13: remote-cache-lifetime (2.4.6) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:14: block-outside-dns (2.4.6) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:21: auth-token-user (2.4.6) Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: explicit notify parm(s) modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: compression parms modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: peer-id set Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: adjusting link_mtu to 1624 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 OPTIONS IMPORT: data channel crypto options modified Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Data Channel: using negotiated cipher 'AES-256-GCM' Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Outgoing Data Channel: Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Incoming Data Channel: Cipher 'AES-256-GCM' initialized with 256 bit key Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.46.46.117/255.255.255.248 IFACE=wwan0 HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 GDG6: remote_host_ipv6=n/a Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 ROUTE6_GATEWAY fe80::6802:b8ff:fede:bb0a IFACE=wlan0 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 do_ifconfig, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=1 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 100.96.1.34 netmask 255.255.255.240 mtu 1500 broadcast 100.96.1.47 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/ifconfig tun0 add fd:0:0:8102::2/64 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/route add -net 100.96.0.0 netmask 255.224.0.0 gw 100.96.1.33 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/route add -net 100.80.0.0 netmask 255.240.0.0 gw 100.96.1.33 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 add_route_ipv6(fd:0:0:8000::/49 -> fd:0:0:8102::1 metric -1) dev tun0 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/route -A inet6 add fd:0:0:8000::/49 dev tun0 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 add_route_ipv6(fd:0:0:4000::/50 -> fd:0:0:8102::1 metric -1) dev tun0 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 /sbin/route -A inet6 add fd:0:0:4000::/50 dev tun0 Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this Wed May 4 19:14:51 2022 Initialization Sequence Completed -
@Djalma-Ribeiro That looks promising! If you do an
ifconfigin another terminal do you see atun0network interface? If so then you're all connected.tun0: flags=4305<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 100.96.1.34 netmask 255.255.255.240 destination 100.96.1.34 inet6 fd:0:0:8102::2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> inet6 fe80::da89:cbe9:b217:1ed7 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> unspec 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 txqueuelen 100 (UNSPEC) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 7 bytes 336 (336.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0But shouldn't I see the drone in the device list on the OpenVPN website?
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What else do I need to do to complete the OpenVPN setup? Do I need to send any certificate for the drone?
I also couldn't find how to connect the QGC to the drone using VPN. How to find the address to use etc.
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@Djalma-Ribeiro By looking at the
tun0interface you can see that the IP of your drone on the VPN is now100.96.1.34When you connect using your ground control station / PC you will also receive an IP there and those are the IPs you will use to communicate via. the VPN server
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@Djalma-Ribeiro By looking at the
tun0interface you can see that the IP of your drone on the VPN is now100.96.1.34When you connect using your ground control station / PC you will also receive an IP there and those are the IPs you will use to communicate via. the VPN server
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@Djalma-Ribeiro By looking at the
tun0interface you can see that the IP of your drone on the VPN is now100.96.1.34When you connect using your ground control station / PC you will also receive an IP there and those are the IPs you will use to communicate via. the VPN server
@tom Is this not my computer's ip?
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@Djalma-Ribeiro The fact that the IP is the same on that OpenVPN screenshot makes me think that you're attempting to use the same key file here as you are on your drone. If that's true, it won't work and the devices will keep kicking each other off the network. You need to use a unique key for each device.
The first test before you try to connect to QGC would be to connect both devices to the VPN with their unique keys and then attempt to ping from the drone to your pc or from pc to drone. That way you can ensure the two can communicate with each other before you try getting PX4 / QGC involved.
Once you have the pinging working, you can set the IP of the ground station on your drone in
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Now I understand a little more! By the way, thank you very much for your help.
I have both the pc and the drone online on OpenVPN:
But neither can find the other by ping.
Is there anything else I'm forgetting?
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Are you using a windows machine? All of our devices use Ubuntu 18.04 so I don't have much experience with it.
However on Windows, I know that some of our customers have had to disable all their firewalls in order to allow the traffic to come through.
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Are you using a windows machine? All of our devices use Ubuntu 18.04 so I don't have much experience with it.
However on Windows, I know that some of our customers have had to disable all their firewalls in order to allow the traffic to come through.
@tom I managed to make the ping work by putting the drone in host and the pc in network.
Do I have to use UDP or TCP to connect to the QGC?
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@Djalma-Ribeiro By default it'll use UDP. See this page for the next steps: https://docs.modalai.com/Qualcomm-Flight-RB5-user-guide-px4/
You will have to modify the
rb5-net-checkservice and change the lineExecStart=/usr/bin/rb5-net-check wlan0 192.168toExecStart=/usr/bin/rb5-net-check tun0 100.96in order to tell the drone to wait for the VPN network interface to come up before sending out PX4 packets.Then you will have to modify the previously mentioned
/etc/modalai/qgc-ip.cfgand adding the IP of your PC on the VPN in order to tell PX4 where to send packets.You can also look at :
/etc/modalai/full-m0052.configin order to see the PX4 startup config -
@Djalma-Ribeiro By default it'll use UDP. See this page for the next steps: https://docs.modalai.com/Qualcomm-Flight-RB5-user-guide-px4/
You will have to modify the
rb5-net-checkservice and change the lineExecStart=/usr/bin/rb5-net-check wlan0 192.168toExecStart=/usr/bin/rb5-net-check tun0 100.96in order to tell the drone to wait for the VPN network interface to come up before sending out PX4 packets.Then you will have to modify the previously mentioned
/etc/modalai/qgc-ip.cfgand adding the IP of your PC on the VPN in order to tell PX4 where to send packets.You can also look at :
/etc/modalai/full-m0052.configin order to see the PX4 startup config@tom I didn't find the file /etc/modalai/qgc-ip.cfg
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Okay you may have a slightly older version of the SDK. Go ahead and download the latest SDK from: https://developer.modalai.com/asset/4
and then follow the instructions here to install:
https://docs.modalai.com/Qualcomm-Flight-RB5-sdk-installation/This way we know you're using the latest SDK. This qgc-ip file was added in a later release
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@Djalma-Ribeiro Okay you may have a slightly older version of the SDK. Go ahead and download the latest SDK from: https://developer.modalai.com/asset/4
and then follow the instructions here to install:
https://docs.modalai.com/Qualcomm-Flight-RB5-sdk-installation/This way we know you're using the latest SDK. This qgc-ip file was added in a later release
root@qrb5165-rb5:/home/rb5-flight-sdk-1.1.3# ./update-sdk.sh bash: ./update-sdk.sh: Permission denied
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