I've got OpenVPN installed on a debian linux server, and in this case the client is a Windows 7 computer. I apologize in advance for how long this post is.
To start with I used this guide as a base reference
http://www.serverubuntu.it/openvpn-bridge-configuration
I've followed it near to the letter, however I am using a server.conf made by just walking through the sample server.conf and changing what needed to be changed.
Here is my server.conf, minus the comments.
port 1194
proto udp
dev tap
ca keys/ca.crt
cert keys/server.crt
key keys/server.key
dh keys/dh1024.pem
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
server-bridge 172.16.1.127 255.255.255.0 172.16.1.200 172.16.1.210
client-to-client
duplicate-cn
keepalive 10 120
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo
max-clients 5
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
And here is the client.conf
client
dev tap
remote my.server.com 1194 # I modified this, the actual config has my true server address
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
ns-cert-type server
cipher BF-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 3
As I said the client connects fine and (according to the logs of both the client and server) is given an IP. A sample, in this case from the server:
Fri Jul 5 07:55:46 2013 66.189.246.61:64638 [client] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]66.189.246.61:64638
Fri Jul 5 07:55:48 2013 client/66.189.246.61:64638 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST'
Fri Jul 5 07:55:48 2013 client/66.189.246.61:64638 SENT CONTROL [client]: 'PUSH_REPLY,route-gateway 172.16.1.127,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 172.16.1.200 255.255.255.0' (status=1)
Fri Jul 5 07:55:49 2013 client/66.189.246.61:64638 MULTI: Learn: 00:ff:c3:01:b2:b5 -> client/66.189.246.61:64638
Fri Jul 5 07:59:22 2013 client/66.189.246.61:51321 [client] Inactivity timeout (--ping-restart), restarting
Fri Jul 5 07:59:22 2013 client/66.189.246.61:51321 SIGUSR1[soft,ping-restart] received, client-instance
The inactivity timeout bit happened while I was trying to ping the server at 172.16.1.127. Am I grossly misunderstanding how the VPN is supposed to work or did I configure something entirely wrong?
