OpenVPN routing

[Ryan Coleman]

On Apr 26, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Maciej Milewski wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 of April 2011 15:45:22, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> I have a bridge set up, pingable... but can't ping the em1 (192.168.46.2) 
> from the remote machine.
> ...
>> push "route 192.168.47.0 255.255.255.0"
> 
> Have you tried adding the route to 192.168.46.0/24 subnet into the vpn client?
> 
> You want to ping the host/interface on different subnet. If you don't set the 
> routing to this subnet how your client should know that he needs to put that 
> packet through tap interface not defaultroute which I suspect is different? 
> 
> Can you show the output of netstat -rn of the vpn client?
> 
> You may try to look into tcpdump on the vpn router to find what is going with 
> your packets.And for such scenario like vpnclient->vpnserver->network you may 
> even not need nat just simple routing will be enough as long as you set it up 
> on right.
> 
> My setup is based on tun interfaces and works like a charm. I don't use nat 
> and I only added routing info to the specific routers in the internal 
> networks.
> 
> Maciej Milewski

I'm going to have to get this information when I get home and am not on the office LAN. I can do ping tests specifically through the tap0 interface but not check the netstat report properly from inside the network.

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Ryan