ExpressVPN help?

[ctm-8400]

Hi,

I need to use ExpressVPN, I installed the package from their site, now I need to run it.

So I opened a terminal and typed `expressvpnd` to start the daemon and it seems to work, then in another terminal I type: `expressvpn activate` it prompts me to enter my activation code which I do, and I get back activated. If I try to use a random activation code instead it doesn't work (so it isn't a connection issue). Also same account works on Ubuntu so that's not an account issue either.

However, when I try to type: `expressvpn connect`, I get "Unable to connect to UK - Docklands". Does anyone know how to resolve this?

Thanks!

(I read somewhere I should use openrc to run `expressvpnd`, but I won't be able to do this with my setup, and I feel like that's not true. Is it?)

[mimosinnet]

I use ExpressVPN and I configured it to connect following the Gentoo Wiki OpenVPN setup. For example, I had in /etc/openvpn/my_expressvpn_uk_-_berkshire_udp.conf these instructions:

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auth-user-pass /etc/openvpn/auth
dev tun
fast-io
persist-key
persist-tun
nobind
remote uk-berkshire-ca-version-2.expressnetw.com 1195

remote-random
pull
comp-lzo no
tls-client
verify-x509-name Server name-prefix
ns-cert-type server
key-direction 1
route-method exe
route-delay 2
tun-mtu 1500
fragment 1300
mssfix 1450
verb 3
cipher AES-256-CBC
keysize 256
auth SHA512
sndbuf 524288
rcvbuf 524288
auth-user-pass

<cert>
...

This is what I had in /etc/init.d;

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ls -lisah openvpn.my_expressvpn_uk_-_berkshire_udp
788400 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 11 oct.  2018 openvpn.my_expressvpn_uk_-_berkshire_udp -> openvpn

Nevertheless, as it was not so easy to configure, I finally decided to install ExpressVPN in a router.