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Hello, I'm very much a newbie to OpenVPN and VPNs in general and hope you can give me some pointers. My requirement: I have several clients on network 1 that need to access shares on network 2. From reading the documentation (win32-install doc), it looks like bridging is definitely the way to go. Network 1: Class C network with i'net routable IP addresses assigned via DHCP (ie, 202.202.202.x). Network 2: Private IP addresses in the range 10.0.0.x. Servers on this network have static IP addresses, but there is also a DHCP server that assigns dynamic IP addresses to clients. In order to provide external access to servers on the network, it's possible to configure external ips (101.101.101.x) that map to a private ip on the network. I do this for several servers with incoming port 80 traffic. So, here come the stupid questions: 1)In order for this to work, I need to allow incoming/outgoing UDP traffic on port 5000 between networks. On network 2, I will map an external ip address to the internal ip address assigned to the server running OpenVPN (let's say external address is 101.101.101.5, internal is 10.0.0.5). As I said, this works great for http traffic, but will it work for the VPN? 2)It seems that in bridging mode anyway, only one physical NIC is required, this has an IP address on the local subnet (eg, 10.0.0.5), and is bridged with the tap-bridge. Or do I need two NICs? I ask this because of the reference to eth1 rather than eth0 in the portion of the install doc referring to Linux-side bridging config. 3)In the install guide, the config example for Windows-side bridging says "remote [myremote]". What would [myremote] be? The remote client's IP address? Also, why is it that the config for Linux-side bridging uses "local" and the config for Windows-side bridging uses "remote"? What do I do in my case, where there will be multiple VPN clients and they will have DHCP-assigned IP addresses? I have saved the DHCP config that was sent to the list today, in case this is applicable to my situation. Thank you very much for your time, I'm looking forward to having this up and running! :) I hope the questions above aren't too idiotic, most of all I'm just looking for confirmation that I can get this working in the network setup I have described. Lastly, I wanted to point out that with the DHCP config the OpenVPN user forwarded in, you can now update install32.html where it says, "It may also be possible to have windows get an address automatically from a DHCP server running on the Linux box, but I have not tested this yet." to point to the revised config file. Best regards, Nick ===== -- Nick Silberstein Email: nhsilber@xxxxxxxxx __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |