Hi I hope you will understand my problem because english is not my native language :) I recently purchased a virtual private server (server2 below). here is a map of my network: [img]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3177/vpnn.png[/img] openvpn will be used on server1 & server2 -I'm trying to set server 2 as the unique input/ouput node to internet access for my home lan. so the packets should do ---> server1 ---> router ---> web ---> server2 ---> -I would also to be able to connect via vpn to server2 from a laptop of internet, so the laptop could get a home lan ip (192.168.30.xx) and talk to other clients, see windows shares,... (so I plan to use tap / bridge mode) The question is: I don't know how to do it. Should server2 be a vpn server and server1 and roadwarrior clients as vpn client ? or Server1 as vpn server and server2 both client and server ? how to set up network interfaces, bridge, routes ? thanks

bridge with 2 hops

exeral

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arne22

I need/use some of the same functionality, and I now run such an "arrangement" as the OPenVPN server 2 in routing mode. All clients are clients on a "virtual lan" under surver 2. It now works quite well for Windows and for Linux clients.

I am no OpenVPN expert at all, but if I should use a server 1 as well, I would have given it two networkcards and let it replace the router.

If server 2 is the running in "VPN routing mode" this should give a "double nat". I guess it could work ?

I dont know if it can work to bridge the external nic of such a "gateway server" with the "external nic" of the OpenVPN server 2. If it can, then this "external ip of the openvpn tunnel" could be available to the external nic of such a "server gateway". If this is possible then the lan clients "will see" internt via one "logical nat".

It would be nice if some of the more experienced OpenVPN users left a few words. (I have set up such server gateways until now without OenVPN, and it is just my guess that it can also work with OpenVPN, used in bridge mode or in routing mode.)