VPN not working with Fedora 34

[shiftedreality]

Hi there,

after I updated to Fedora 34, all my VPN-service-qubes are not connecting anymore. With Fedora 33 they worked without any problems. I used https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-vpn-support to create several qubes working with Mullvad VPN. Whats’s wrong?

[oijawyuh]

Hi. Welcome to the forum!
I raised the same issue here:

Fedora-34 issues with sys-net and vpn VM

I installed fedora-34-minimal, updated it, and installed in it the basic software that I had in fedora-33-minimal (qubes-core-agent-networking qubes-core-agent-network-manager iptables openvpn pciutils vim-minimal less psmisc iproute qubes-core-agent-dom0-updates NetworkManager-wifi network-manager-applet wireless-tools qubes-input-proxy-sender qubes-usb-proxy). Then I switched sys-net, sys-firewall and vpn VM templates from fedora-33-minimal to fedora-34-minimal template. sys-net failed to boo…

I haven’t gotten an answer and wasn’t able to fix it while keeping Fedora.
I switched the VM Template to debian-11 (and installed OpenVPN in the template) for the VPN to work again. Also, I failed to get the VPN to work in debian-11-minimal despite installing all packages possible.
Switching to debian-11 could be a temporary solution until a fix is found.

[shiftedreality]

Thank you! I’ll try that

[joe.blough]

I use a combination of debian 10 and 11 minimal depending on the vpn provider.

[dropkicked-ego]

I had similar issues with OpenVPN, so I switched to WireGuard. If you have that as an option with your provider, here is how I accomplished it (with awesome community help) New user confused on vpn stuffs

Haven’t had any issues with it so far.

Currently investigating tunnel “locking” mechanism for certain VMs.