Help with getting Windows DHCP to assign ip to VPN clients

Ett_tingest

Hello,
I cant find any info in howto or any info about if what I want is possible or not.
So I thought I would put up a question here on the forum and see if someone knows if it is possible and how to set it up.

What I want is that a remote user shall be able to access the Office network and that the TAP interface on clients machine gets its ip, gateway and DNS assigned by the Windows DHCP server in the Office network and not the OpenVPN DHCP.

Is this possible, and if it is. How do I set it up?

Thanks!

Best regards/
Peter

maikcat

hi there,

if you want your internal dhcp server gives out ips to your openvpn clients
you must setup openvpn server in bridge mode and use the following 2 directives:

server-bridge
push "route 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 net_gateway"

the first one prevents openvpn itself to act as a dhcp server & the second one
is for your client to add an explicit "default" route via the net_gateway,
which is always the LAN gateway at the client side...

Michael.

ps: bridging examples can be found at doc section..