Hi,

sometimes it make sense to change the default ports of an OpenVPN installation, because these are those which are in case of an vulnerability scan attacked first or some company firewall rules makes it necessary.

With the

port 1194

directive in your config file the source and destination port for connections is always 1194.

For outgoing connections there are two ways to alter the source port:
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