Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: Can't reach server subnet

[Daniel S. <dse...@gm...>]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 26.03.2006, 11:03 +0200 schrieb Jon Bendtsen:
> Are the openvpn server also the default gateway for your server lan?

The default gateway for the server LAN (or actually for the virtual LAN
that is composed of three virtual VMware machines and is within the
server itself) is 192.168.33.2. This is the LAN side of vmnet8.

I'm not quite sure what the correct name for vmnet8 is. It's not just a
plain network interface. It has the IP 192.168.33.1 on the server-side
and 192.168.33.2 on the LAN-side and acts as a natting gateway for the
virtual machines.

The 192.168.33.1 part is on the same 'machine' as the eth0 and tun0
interface and this machine has a route that says that 10.33.0.x goes to
tun0 (see previous mail). So my understanding is that the OpenVPN server
runs on the default gateway.

> But the client is not for it's own lan?

The client is a single PC without any LAN attached.

The confusing thing for me is that the virtual machines can talk to the
client which should mean that everything is working correctly (a ping
from a virtual machine within the virtual LAN is correctly routed
through vmnet8 and from there to tun0 and to the client - without any
special route on the virtual machine).

But the client can not talk to the virtual machine - the packets are
received by the virtual machine but the replies are lost in vmnet8. 

Maybe this is something that I should rather ask VMware?

Daniel