outline-apps: windows client: Internet Connection Problem related to TAP and outline
Last week, Suddenly my laptop didn’t connect to Internet, the problem was related to DNS. And it was wonderful because the problem was between only my laptop (window 7) and my router. my laptop could connect to my phone’s hot-spot and other devices could connect to WiFi and internet correctly.
After googling a lot, finally I reset my tcp/ip by this command:
netsh int ip reset
After reseting, Ouline could not connect and showed ‘Unexpected Error …’. I had searched in issues and found the problem is related to TAP, so I deleted and inatlled tap again.
Every thing was OK but after restart windows, the internet connection problem occurred again.
I think it’s related to new version of Outline.
Best Regards
About this issue
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- State: closed
- Created 6 years ago
- Reactions: 1
- Comments: 15 (5 by maintainers)
@mataqvazadeh @gaotongsh @ppryamikov @jandornig @gisha Thanks for the reports and apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
@lgg @saeedghod @Flawks Many thanks for the helpful workarounds.
I believe this is related to how Outline creates persistent routes on the system. We originally made these routes persistent to properly handle sleep and suspend but it seems that’s no longer necessary - without persistent routes, rebooting your system should always return it to a useable state.
Fix here and should appear in the next release sometime next week: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/pull/430
Temporary solution for this problem is to close/disconnect outline client before shut down the OS. If you forgot to do this just uninstall and then install your LAN/WLAN adapter (For install hit “Scan for hardware changes” button) through “device manager” .
@saeedghod actually, the solution “close/disconnect outline client before shut down the OS” doesn’t work fine, as I noticed the same Internet Connection Problem after rebooting PC with Outline being disconnected. Driver re-installation didn’t help so I solved this issue with System restore. There is Wi-Fi adapter on my PC (Windows 7, x64), so I decided to replay same scenario on VirtualBox Windows 7:
After several days I ran virtual Windows 7 and it showed Internet Connection Problem.
netsh int ip resetwas the only way I found to solve it (thanks, @mataqvazadeh).My friend is having the exact same issue when connecting to my server last week. Hope someone could share insight of how this happened.
This was released in: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/releases/tag/windows-v1.2.23
Hi @trevj my 2 laptops are having the same exact issue.
Is there an update coming? in the first moment i didnt know how to solve it and reset the network adapters completely to get it working again. Reboots/disconnecting etc. didnt help by themselves.
It seems like outline is not properly disconnecting when i shut down computers. then on a reboot-wake up, the issue happens that it cant connect to the internet at all. and starting outline brings up an error that say another vpn is already engaged, which it isnt.
route delete 0.0.0.0 and ipconfig/renew worked for me last time (so i dont have to completely reset it, didnt see this thread before with other suggestions.)
@saeedghod Thanks. Yeah, Accidentally I found this solution last night.