Local Bridge status "error" but no message in logs

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ctheodore
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Local Bridge status "error" but no message in logs

Post by ctheodore » Mon Nov 30, 2020 4:55 pm

I have set up a local bridge on my raspberry pi server running debian buster, and saw the status was "error" so I checked the server_log file for today and didn't see any logs explaining the error. Below are the logs. Does anyone know where I can find the actual error? These logs look like the bridge is fine, but when I ran "BridgeList" I saw the bridge with status error

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2020-11-30 08:28:10.859 Administration mode [RPC-83]: The Local Bridge connection definition "VPN" --> "eth0bridge" has been added.
2020-11-30 08:28:10.859 [HUB "VPN"] The Local Bridge connection "eth0bridge" has started. The bridge session "SID-LOCALBRIDGE-3" was created.
2020-11-30 08:35:18.426 Connection "CID-3" terminated by the cause "No error." (code 0).
2020-11-30 08:35:18.426 Connection "CID-3" has been terminated.
2020-11-30 08:35:18.426 The connection with the client (IP address 127.0.0.1, Port number 33174) has been disconnected.

-- after seeing the bridge status was "error" I shut down & rebooted my raspberry pi

2020-11-30 08:35:53.237 SoftEther VPN Server Version 4.34 Build 9745   (English)
2020-11-30 08:35:53.237 Compiled 2020/04/05 23:39:56 by buildsan at crosswin
2020-11-30 08:35:53.237 Log Messages are written with UTF-8 Encoding Format.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.237 The SoftEther VPN Server has been started.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.248 IPsec Module: The IPsec ver 2.0 (ISAKMP/IKEv1) processing module is started.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.248 OpenVPN Module: The OpenVPN Server Module is starting.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.278 Loading the configuration file.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.458 Monitoring the directory "/usr/local/vpnserver". If the amount of available free disk space becomes less than 100.00 MBytes, the backup files for log files and configurations that are saved on the sub-directories of this directory will be automatically deleted in the order of oldest first. The amount of free disk space that determines when to start deletion can be modified by changing the "AutoDeleteCheckDiskFreeSpaceMin" item in the configuration file.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.468 Virtual Hub "DEFAULT" has been started.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.468 The MAC address of Virtual Hub "DEFAULT" is "00-AE-6C-FE-97-84".
2020-11-30 08:35:53.468 [HUB "DEFAULT"] The Virtual Hub is now online.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.478 Virtual Hub "VPN" has been started.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.478 The MAC address of Virtual Hub "VPN" is "00-AE-D7-B9-3F-6F".
2020-11-30 08:35:53.605 [HUB "VPN"] SecureNAT has started. The SecureNAT session "SID-SECURENAT-1" was created.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.605 [HUB "VPN"] The Virtual Hub is now online.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 443) is starting.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 443) has started. Now listening for connection from client.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 992) is starting.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 992) has started. Now listening for connection from client.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 1194) is starting.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 1194) has started. Now listening for connection from client.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 5555) is starting.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.625 TCP Listener (port 5555) has started. Now listening for connection from client.

2020-11-30 08:35:53.638 [HUB "VPN"] The Local Bridge connection "eth0bridge" has started. The bridge session "SID-LOCALBRIDGE-2" was created.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.638 The configuration file has been loaded.
2020-11-30 08:35:53.648 Starting the automatically saving background task. The interval between auto-saves is 300 seconds. You can change the interval by changing the parameter AutoSaveConfigSpan in the configuration file.
2020-11-30 08:36:32.219 [HUB "VPN"] SecureNAT: It has been detected that the Kernel-mode NAT for SecureNAT can be run on the interface "ipv4_rawsocket_virtual_router". The Kernel-mode NAT is starting. The TCP, UDP and ICMP NAT processings will be performed with high-performance via Kernel-Mode hereafter. The parameters of Kernel-mode NAT: IP Address = "10.171.7.254", Subnet Mask = "255.255.255.252", Default Gateway = "10.171.7.253", Broadcast Address = "10.171.7.255", Virtual MAC Address: "DA-78-24-48-FB-91", DHCP Server Address: "10.171.7.253", DNS Server Address: "208.67.222.222"
2020-11-30 08:38:55.590 On the TCP Listener (Port 443), a Client (IP address 127.0.0.1, Host name "localhost", Port number 59806) has connected.
2020-11-30 08:38:55.590 For the client (IP address: 127.0.0.1, host name: "localhost", port number: 59806), connection "CID-1" has been created.
2020-11-30 08:38:55.701 SSL communication for connection "CID-1" has been started. The encryption algorithm name is "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384".
2020-11-30 08:38:55.711 Connection "CID-1" connected using server admin mode.
2020-11-30 08:38:55.711 Connection "CID-1" was unable to log in using administration mode. Access has been denied. (Error code 12)
2020-11-30 08:38:55.742 Connection "CID-1" terminated by the cause "No error." (code 0).
2020-11-30 08:38:55.742 Connection "CID-1" has been terminated.
2020-11-30 08:38:55.742 The connection with the client (IP address 127.0.0.1, Port number 59806) has been disconnected.
2020-11-30 08:38:58.728 On the TCP Listener (Port 443), a Client (IP address 127.0.0.1, Host name "localhost", Port number 59808) has connected.
2020-11-30 08:38:58.728 For the client (IP address: 127.0.0.1, host name: "localhost", port number: 59808), connection "CID-2" has been created.
2020-11-30 08:38:58.860 SSL communication for connection "CID-2" has been started. The encryption algorithm name is "TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384".
2020-11-30 08:38:58.860 Connection "CID-2" connected using server admin mode.
2020-11-30 08:38:58.860 Connection "CID-2" successfully logged in using administration mode.
2020-11-30 08:38:58.870 Connection "CID-2" created a new remote procedure call session "RPC-85" for the purpose of administration mode.
2020-11-30 08:40:16.112 Administration mode [RPC-85]: The Local Bridge connection definition "eth0bridge" --> "eth0bridge" has been deleted.

Afakename
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Re: Local Bridge status "error" but no message in logs

Post by Afakename » Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:40 pm

Hi ctheodore,

Don't have a Rasberry here....SEVPN bridging requires the NIC card supports Promiscuous mode and MAC forging (some people call it MAC spoofing). My experience with bridge not working are these 2 options are either disabled (in the ESXi environment) or the physical nic is too crappy not supporting these 2 options.

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