Ethernet Bridge Connects, pings, can't access remotes

numblock27

Hello all. I have a Fedora 19 box with openvpn set up as a server. I am using a windows 7 client with openvpngui. My problem is that I can get connected and ping all machines on the bridged LAN but when I try to RDP or HTTP any of the remote machines, it times out. When I do try to RDP to a remote machine, I see activity both ways on the TAP adapter on the windows box. Not sure what to do. Configs are below:

Server.conf

local 50.x.x.x
mssfix 1200
port 1194
proto udp
dev tap0
ca /etc/openvpn/keys/Xxcrt
cert /etc/openvpn/keys/x.crt
key /etc/openvpn/keys/x.key  # This file should be kept secret
dh /etc/openvpn/keys/x.pem
server-bridge 192.168.27.30 255.255.255.0 192.168.27.180 192.168.27.200
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
client-to-client
keepalive 10 120
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3

Client.ovpn

client
dev tap
dev-node tap
proto udp
remote 50.x.x.x 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca c:\\x.crt
cert c:\\x.crt
key c:\\x.key
remote-cert-tls server
ns-cert-type server
route-method exe
verb 3

Any help appreciated!

numblock27

Hi, Thanks for the reply. Route output is below:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 50.x.x.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 enp2s2
50.x.x.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 enp2s2
192.168.27.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br0

numblock27

Thanks again for the reply. The remote gateway for the private LAN is correctly specified (it goes through a NAT at 192.168.27.30). I tried to put in the public gateway on that machine just for giggles and the server will not start as the public gateway and the bridged network are not in the same subnet.

numblock27

Hi, Thanks again. I do have several servers configured with RDP and several web servers on the bridged LAN. I used to connect to my LAN at my office with PPTP but at one of my remote locations, a telco supplied router is not working well with PPTP so that is why I wanted to try OpenVPN. I was able to connect to the RDP servers over the PPTP link but not the OpenVPN bridged configuration. To repeat, I can ping ALL machines on the remote LAN with the OpenVPN bridge, but when I try to connect to any kind of service or file share, it just times out (I do have a WINS server on the remote LAN).

numblock27

I have tied both. Still all of the services time out

numblock27

I am gonna try to set up a windows server and see if it works. Will advise

numblock27

Hi, Thanks again. There are several machines that I cannot connect to. And the output of netstat with those parameters will be very long. I am certain that the machines are listening on the proper ports as I can connect to them on the LAN side of the bridge and I can also connect to them remotely when using PPTP. I have tried RDP, SMB, and HTTP down the OpenVPN tunnel and it just times out. I can't even SSH into the Fedora box that acts as the OPENVPN Server when connected to it (down the tunnel).