Incoming network traffic blocked after starting OpenVPN srvr

TimYaukey

I'm using the generic unmodified server.ovpn to start an OpenVPN server under Vista Home Premium. Routing mode, not bridged. Once I start the server it is impossible to reach the server from any other machine on the LAN, either at the normal (non-OpenVPN) IP address or the VPN IP address. The server machine itself can still connect to other machines, both on the LAN and on the Internet. I can start an OpenVPN client session from another machine, and it says it did so successfully, but the connection appears to be dead - I can't ping the server from the client.

Any ideas? What might explain the regular non-OpenVPN IP address from suddenly being dead from outside the server?

janjust

post the config files and post the connection log (on the Vista machine) with 'verb 4' set - it should provide enough info to tell what is going on.