Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:36:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Quinn <letter2steve@yahoo.com> To: Andrew Berry <andrewberry@sentex.net>, =?utf-8?B?TmVqYyDFoGtvYmVybmU=?= <nejc@skoberne.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openvpn on FreeBSD 7 Message-ID: <464288.57641.qm@web51404.mail.re2.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <484E26FD.4080605@skoberne.net>
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--- On Tue, 6/10/08, Nejc Škoberne <nejc@skoberne.net> wrote: > Actually I don't think you can do the same thing with a > tunnel. You have > to use a different IP addresses for the tunnel itself. Have > you read the > OpenVPN manual? > > > Yes, I did: 'tcpdump -i tun0'. Nothing shows > up on the server, but on > > the client (OS X) I can see the pings being sent. > > This means that there is a problem with the OpenVPN > connection. Can you show > the tail of your logs on both sides? > > > proto tcp > > Why are you using TCP anyway? > > Bye, > Nejc Hi Andrew, Nejc, All I just built my first FreeBSD 7.0 machine to test OpenVPN on it It was a nice way to review/fix my OpenVPN page I forgot to stress how important the sysctl setting is for net.inet.ip.forwarding The default is disabled (0) and I to could not connect beyond the OpenVPN server I'm editing the page now to include something like this Make sure IP Forwarding is enabled Check it with sysctl -a |grep net.inet.ip.f Set it with sysctl inet.inet.ip.forwarding=1 or Alternatively set it by adding this to /etc/sysctl.conf net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 I hope this helps Take care Steve
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