windows client: Internet Connection Problem related to TAP and outline

Last week, Suddenly my laptop didn’t connect to Internet, the problem was related to DNS. And it was wonderful because the problem was between only my laptop (window 7) and my router. my laptop could connect to my phone’s hot-spot and other devices could connect to WiFi and internet correctly.

After googling a lot, finally I reset my tcp/ip by this command: netsh int ip reset

After reseting, Ouline could not connect and showed ‘Unexpected Error …’. I had searched in issues and found the problem is related to TAP, so I deleted and inatlled tap again.

Every thing was OK but after restart windows, the internet connection problem occurred again.

I think it’s related to new version of Outline.

Best Regards

[trevj]

@mataqvazadeh @gaotongsh @ppryamikov @jandornig @gisha Thanks for the reports and apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.

@lgg @saeedghod @Flawks Many thanks for the helpful workarounds.

I believe this is related to how Outline creates persistent routes on the system. We originally made these routes persistent to properly handle sleep and suspend but it seems that’s no longer necessary - without persistent routes, rebooting your system should always return it to a useable state.

Fix here and should appear in the next release sometime next week: https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/pull/430

[saeedghod]

Temporary solution for this problem is to close/disconnect outline client before shut down the OS. If you forgot to do this just uninstall and then install your LAN/WLAN adapter (For install hit “Scan for hardware changes” button) through “device manager” .