When OpenVPN is started, SSH stops working

[MattSkala]

To reproduce, purchase AzireVPN with cloudomate:
cloudomate vpn purchase azirevpn

Get the configuration information:
cloudomate vpn info azirevpn

Store the configuration information to ~/own_config.ovpn and ~/own_credentials.conf files on the VPS. On the last line of own_config.ovpn, replace credentials.conf with own_credentials.conf.

Run plebnet check on the VPS. The VPN is installed, you lose SSH access and the exit node probably stops working. When you send !general command to the IRC channel, you can verify that VPN is running, but by periodically sending !uploaded you can see the amount of uploaded data does not change.

The issue was encountered on BlueAngelHost VPS.

[MattSkala]

There is an SSH access option in the control panel, but it requires Java, which is not supported by any of the latest browsers anymore. To start the Java applet, you can use an old version of Firefox 51. Then you get an error that the applet certificate is expired. You can add the control panel IP address to the Exception Site List in Java Control Panel. However, even after that I was not able to connect to SSH as the applet does not respond to click events.

[MattSkala]

Update: The exit node is probably running as the MB balance increased over the past few hours. But still no success to log in to SSH, so I had to reset the server. Would be nice if we can figure out how to set up OpenVPN so that SSH access is still working.

[MattSkala]

https://www.linode.com/community/questions/7381/openvpn-client-connected-to-a-server-while-listening-to-ssh#answer-36662