http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20450110 en Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:21:13 EDT Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:21:13 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452952 jpaik : Have you looked through the OpenVPN FAQ here?

»openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/faq.html

I believe there is a lot of information in the FAQ on pinging.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20452952 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:30:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20450110 fish : Hello Members,
I used Open VPN to establish a virtual private network(vpn).
Though my final task is to create a site-to-site vpn, currently I am simulating it between two machines within the same LAN, acting one machine as a server and the other as a client.
To come to the details of my configuration, I used Windows xp with service pack 2 as my operating systems in both of my PCs.
I used the tunneling vpn, that is the dev tun. And I think the vpn connection is established between the two machines because I can ping the one from the other using their vpn ip addresses. Even I can make the client’s traffic pass through the server though not fully complete.In other words, I included the directive redirect-gateway def1 [local] in my server configuration file.
In my setup I faced one problem. That is,
As I mentioned it in the above, my LAN network address is 192.168.1. 0 and the vpn address is 10.8.0.0. To make it clear, the server directive is assigned as follows
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
While the vpn connection is active between the server and the client ( with vpn addresses 10.8.0.1 and 10.8.0.6 respectively), if I try to ping other PCs in the LAN using their normal host id, say for example 192.168.1.9, it pings without problem.
Here, my question is, is it possible to ping other PCs out of the vpn from the vpn-connected pc and vice ver sally while the Open VPN server and client are running or forming tunnel between them?
How can I configure the setup so that only the server and client can communicate one another, nothing else while they are running? How can I block pinging from the vpn-connected PCs to the non-vpn connected PCs and pinging from non-vpn connected to the vpn-connected PCs?
I am stuck at this point, I could not proceed to the next steps.
Any answers, suggestions and feed-backs are welcome.
Thank you in advance,]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20450110 Thu, 08 May 2008 07:22:09 EDT