Hello, i have followed this tutorial http://www.howtoforge.com/openvpn-server-on-centos-5.2 .. and i have an problem when i connect through openvpn-gui Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 TEST ROUTES: 0/0 succeeded len=2 ret=0 a=0 u/d=down Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 route ADD 192.168.168.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.5 Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 Warning: route gateway is not reachable on any active network adapters: 172.16.0.5 Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 Route addition via IPAPI failed Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 route ADD 172.16.0.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 172.16.0.5 Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 Warning: route gateway is not reachable on any active network adapters: 172.16.0.5 Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 Route addition via IPAPI failed Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 Initialization Sequence Completed With Errors ( see http://openvpn.net/faq.html#dhcpclientserv ) It is appears to be connected normally and appears assigned ip 172.16.0.6 but i can't ping any ip on the vpn network and i can't ping the openvpn ip server I have completely disabled firewalls in both Openvpn server and client Could you please help me .? Thanks
Vpn Hi, Can you check if your server is listening on the port (netstat -ntpl) and can you telnet to the port from another machine on the LAN? It could be a firewalling issue. Regards Cameron
Telnet? Hi, Can you telnet to the server on the LAN eg. from a PC on the same network: # telnet <server> 1723 Also check you are pushing the correct routes from your openvpn server to the client. On the client if it's windows: route print and from linux # route -n Also check if your network has a wins server you may have to uncomment that in your server conf... Regards Cameron
Routing I noticed this in your error: Wed Jul 07 12:44:15 2010 route ADD 192.168.168.0 This was my route at the time of writing but doubt it's yours too? Probably 192.168.0.0 or 192.168.1.0 depending on what address range you have at your office and what your default gateway is. Cameron
Hello, I can connect via telnet with our problems this is my route print Code: IPv4 Route Table =========================================================================== Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.138 10.0.0.3 20 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 On-link 10.0.0.3 276 10.0.0.3 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.0.0.3 276 10.0.0.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.0.0.3 276 127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306 127.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306 172.16.0.4 255.255.255.252 On-link 172.16.0.6 286 172.16.0.6 255.255.255.255 On-link 172.16.0.6 286 172.16.0.7 255.255.255.255 On-link 172.16.0.6 286 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 127.0.0.1 306 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 172.16.0.6 286 224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 On-link 10.0.0.3 276 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 127.0.0.1 306 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 172.16.0.6 286 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 On-link 10.0.0.3 276 =========================================================================== My Network Range is : 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.254 and Gateway is : 10.0.0.138 Could you please tell me what should i change in the server.conf .? Thanks
route Hi, Maybe change this line to match your own network in the server conf: push "route 192.168.168.0 255.255.255.0" Maybe to 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 Try this and see.... Cameron
i have changed it to 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 and also i changed dhcp to push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.138" and it worked fine .. Consider another client has range 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254 and his gateway 192.168.1.1 should i change the push "route 192.168.168.0 255.255.255.0" for every client has a different gateway .?? or there is any thing to add arouting for a different gateways ? Thanks alot
Routes Hi, I have not tried it for multiple routes but you may be able to add multiple routes in the server conf.... Cameron
Hello, Realy i'm very Grateful to you , Could you please tell me how to connect to openvpn via linux centos and ubuntu ?
Centos & Ubuntu Hi, You just need to install openvpn via the repos: Centos - # yum install openvpn (you might need the rpmforge repo) Ubuntu - # sudo aptitude install openvpn There should be an /etc/openvpn directory where you need to configure your client conf which there will be a sample of in /usr/share/docs/openvpn or somewhere similar. On centos it will be started via /etc/init.d/openvpn start (also Ubuntu). To start on boot you can use 'chkconfig openvpn on' and ubuntu I thing rc-update or something like that. Good luck! Cameron
Hello, Thanks alot you are helpful , could you tell me how could i assign fixed ip for each client .? like i want client1 >> 172.16.0.10 client2 >> 172.16.0.12 client3 >> 172.16.0.70 i want to specify ip for each client .. could this be done ? OPenvpn server on Centos 5 and i have windows - linux clients Thank you
