[gentoo-user] openvpn experience, anyone?

[n952162 <n952162@web.de>]

Hello all,

I want to ssh over my openvpn connection, and I can't do it, the
connection times out.

I saw a reference to gentoo in the openvpn scripts in /etc/openvpn and
thought maybe somebody here  knows something about this.

Earlier my institution recommended openconnect, and I was able to use
ssh to login in to a host with no problem.

Then, for some reason (licensing?), we were switched to openvpn, which
works for xfreerdp but not for ssh.

I don't have control over the institution's firewall (but I do have for
the host itself)

Perhaps when installing the new service, they tightened up the firewall
rules.  But maybe there's a configuration screw I can turn, or ... maybe
a USE flag?

- - down-root : Enable the down-root plugin
  - - examples  : Install examples, usually source code
  - - inotify   : Enable inotify filesystem monitoring support
  - - iproute2  : Enabled iproute2 support instead of net-tools
  + + lz4       : Enable support for lz4 compression (as implemented in
app-arch/lz4)
  + + lzo       : Enable support for lzo compression
  - - mbedtls   : Use mbed TLS as the backend crypto library
  + + openssl   : Use OpenSSL as the backend crypto library
  + + pam       : Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
- DANGEROUS to
                  arbitrarily flip
  - - pkcs11    : Enable PKCS#11 smartcard support
  + + plugins   : Enable the OpenVPN plugin system
  - - systemd   : Enable use of systemd-specific libraries and features
like socket
                  activation or session tracking
  - - test      : Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to
run tests
                  (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be
toggled independently)

TIA