Static IP addresses using ifconfig-pool-persist

kasonne

Hello

I am attempting to assign static IPs to every client by pre populating the server.ipp file with the common name, and IP, I have the following line in my server.cof

ifconfig-pool-persist /var/lib/openvpn/server.ipp 0

In order to stop the server populating the file with new IPs and only allow me to edit the file. But what seems to be happening every now and then is that a client will reconnect and get a different IP address issues from the pool, and basically ignore the persist file.

I had hoped to aviod creating client configs, so my question is Do I need to have both the persist file and also the client config file?

If I need the client config file, any tips on how to read the persist file and populate the CCD directory using a script as I have over 1000 clients to setup?

Thank you for taking the time to read my problem, and any help or tips greatly appreciated.

kasonne

Hello

If any one is interested I have made a script that reads the server.ipp and creates the ccd files. Feel free to use if you end up in the same situation as me. It would still be interesting to know if you can do static IPs using only the ifconfig-pool-persist function.

#!/bin/bash

OLDIFS=$IFS

IFS=,

list=/var/lib/openvpn/server.ipp

serverip=172.17.0.1

while read commonname ipaddress
do
        echo ifconfig-push $ipaddress $serverip > '/etc/openvpn/server.ccd/$commonname'
done < $list

IFS=$OLDIFS

devangjani

Hey Kasonne,

Can you please tell me how you're running the above script to add "ccd" file as per client.
Is it through cron job or OpenVPN service file?