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

[Schley A. K. <sa...@gm...>]

It still fails. I tried enabling this yesterday as I recalled I needed to do so when I was using bridged mode for OpenVPN. I re-enabled it just now to be sure, and things still fail.

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-a

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."  --Einstein

On Dec 10, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Jan Just Keijser wrote:

> 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)
>>>    
>> 
>> [0]root@vault:~$ iptables -L -n -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 9232 packets, 1856K bytes)
>> pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
>> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 9183 packets, 1533K bytes)
>> pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
>> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 4264 packets, 686K bytes)
>> pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination 
>> Looks good to me.
>> 
>>  
>>> routing is enabled on the machine, I assume (because otherwise some other things would have failed already) ?
>>>    
>> 
>> /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.
>> 
>>  
> 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
>