This page will guide you through a step by step process to fix issue with Openvpn restarting and not being able to connect to the TryHackMe VPN Server.

Step 1 – Open the File

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Using your text editor of choice, open Openvpn file. For this example, nano will be used.

sudo nano myvpn.ovpn



Step 2 – Edit the Cipher Syntax

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Once you have open to file navigate to line 14 where you will be presented with the following:

cipher AES-256-CBC

Change it to the following:

--data-ciphers AES-256-CBC

From here you can exit out of nano and the VPN will now connect to the TryHackMe servers.

Step 3 – Success

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From here you will be able to connect to the VPN server and continue on practicing using the TryHackMe platform!