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Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN and Windows network drive maps


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN and Windows network drive maps
  • From: "Darren Spruell" <phatbuckett@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:15:37 -0700

On 1/4/07, Steve Poe <steve.poe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Would you mind explaining a bit more on:
>  >Do your destination machines know to route return traffic for the
>  >10.8.x.x openvpn hosts through your openvpn server?
>
>  I am not quite sure what you're asking. I am guessing do the other
> systems/clients/servers
>  know about the 10.8.x.x network? No. I guess I was assuming that at the
> OpenVPN
>  server point, it could handle routing traffic between the different points.

The server itself can, insofar as it is concerned. Remember that IP
routing works on a hop by hop paradigm. Look at how traffic comes from
an OpenVPN client to a destination system (e.g. hosting Windows
shares), and then replies from that system back again; your routing
might be set up such that you can route traffic from your openvpn
server to the destination host, but that host also has to know who to
send traffic to (next hop) in order to get traffic back to your
openvpn server for the client (and so does the hop after that, and the
hop after that, etc.). In other words, does every hop between your
destination server (inclusive) and the openvpn server know that
10.8.x.x gets directed towards the openvpn server?

DS
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