Re: [Openvpn-users] Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s)

[Gert D. <ge...@gr...>]

hi,

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 11:42:18AM +0000, Jason Long via Openvpn-users wrote:
> My problem is that I did it by enabling the IP Forwarding. I wanted to do it without it. I guess that I must to enable the IP Forwarding because of my OpenVPN server NICs. It has two NICs (NAT and Local) and because of it I must enable IP Forwarding.

Anything that forwards IP packets that are "for a 3rd party" must have
IP forwarding turned on.

This is just the way networking works.

ip_forward=0 <- Host
ip_forward=1 <- Router, VPN server, ...

gert
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