Re: [Openvpn-users] Routed VPN cannot connect to bridge on same host

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

Schley Andrew Kutz wrote:
>> the default is that everything is allowed ; iptables -L -n -v will show you that (maybe list 'iptables -t nat -L -n -v' to be safe)
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> [0]root@vault:~$ iptables -L -n -v 
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 9232 packets, 1856K bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
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> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 9183 packets, 1533K bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
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> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 4264 packets, 686K bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination 
>
> Looks good to me.
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>> routing is enabled on the machine, I assume (because otherwise some other things would have failed already) ?
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> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward is set to 0, but everything else is working. I thought this was strange as well. I just assumed because I'm using a tunnel for OpenVPN and not bridging, that OpenVPN handled the routing.
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whoa!
in order to forward stuff between (non-bridged) interfaces you need to 
have ip_forwarding enabled. What happens if you do
  echo 1  > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
and try again?

cheers,

JJK