Vista firewall blocks unblocked port

[Guest ejm]

I installed OpenVPN on my notebook, but the Vista firewall keeps

blocking it, even after I made an exception for this port in the

firewall.

 

When I completely turn off the firewall, OpenVPN works fine, but I

don't want to turn off my firewall for obvious reasons.

 

In the Settings for Windows Firewall dialog box:

1) In the advanced tab, I disabled the firewall for the OpenVPN

connection.

2) In the Exceptions tab, I added an exception for UDP-port 1194.

 

I turned on logging of the Firewall and see this:

 

#Fields: date time action protocol src-ip dst-ip src-port dst-port size

tcpflags tcpsyn tcpack tcpwin icmptype icmpcode info path

2009-06-15 12:11:52 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:11:54 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:11:56 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:11:58 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:00 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:02 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:04 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:04 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:06 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

2009-06-15 12:12:08 DROP UDP 192.168.0.8 192.168.0.121 1194 49356 128 -

- - - - - - RECEIVE

 

(192.168.0.8 is the gateway and 192.168.0.121 is the local machine).

 

In other words: Vista firewall still drops the incoming packets from

UDP-port 1194!

 

Even when I have the firewall turned on and unblock all incoming

connections, it still drops UDP-port 1194.

 

I searched the internet for an explanation, but couln't find it.

 

Does anyone have an idea? What else can I try?

 

 

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ejm