Re: [Openvpn-users] Howto assign static IP addresses to clients?

[Jan J. K. <ja...@ni...>]

hi Patrick,

Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Openvpn newbie here. I have the config below on the openvpn server
> (version 2.1 on a Fedora Core 7 box) and the client is a Fedora 9
> laptop. The vpn works fine. One thing I could not figure out: how do I
> assign static IP address to clients?
>
> port 1194
> proto udp
> dev tun
> cipher AES-256-CBC
> auth SHA1
> tls-cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
> tls-auth ta.key 0
> ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt
> cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.crt
> key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server.key
> dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/dh2048.pem
> server 10.0.1.0 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig-pool-persist /etc/openvpn/ipp.txt
> push "dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.100"
> push "dhcp-option DOMAIN testbox.local"
> push "dhcp-option SEARCH vpn.testbox.local"
> keepalive 10 120
> comp-lzo
> user nobody
> group nobody
> persist-key
> persist-tun
> log-append /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log
> verb 4
>
>   
you're already using an ifconfig-pool-persist file, that's good. If you 
add a '0' behind the ifconfig-pool-persist line then the file is treated 
statically . Another option you can use is to use the 
'client-config-dir' directive and setup a specific IP for a client.

HTH,

JJK