Routing: local link vs VPN provided route

[Bill Moran]

In response to Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>:
> 
> We have recently working on an OpenVPN scenario and we have found that
> when there is a locally linked network, the route provided by OpenVPN
> would not work:
> 
> - - Local network uses 192.168.1.0/24 network (thus we have a flags 'UC'
> route)
> 
> - - Upon connection, the VPN would provide a route to 192.168.1.0/24
> through the tun0 device.
> 
> It seems, however, that the packets would just go to local network.  Is
> it possible to get packets to non-conflicting IP addresses (i.e. only
> exist in either local network, or remote VPN'ed network) to go through
> the tun0 device?

Any hack you would do to make this work is going to be unreliable at best.

Renumber your network so that routing can work as designed.

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Bill Moran
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