Site to site bridge questions

besson3c

Hello,

I want to extend two networks in two different locations so that all machines on each network can see each other.

From my gateway VM I'm able to establish a client configured OpenVPN tunnel to my OpenVPN server (which is inside the network, not the same IP as the gateway). Once this VPN connection is active from my gateway VM I'm able to communicate with all machines on the remote network. However, I'm having a hard time getting the other machines on my LAN to also interact with these remote machines. Doing a traceroute and tcpdump I see that requests are not being passed on from the gateway via br0 to my tap0 interface.

I've been working on this problem for a while, and I'm definitely happy to post configs and such, but can we start with a high level approach here? What steps are needed to allow other machines on my LAN to speak to the remote machines via the active OpenVPN tunnel? What steps will be needed to allow the machines on the other endpoint, the LAN where the OpenVPN server resides, to be able to communicate with all machines on my other network?

I'm not running OpenVPN Access Server, just the basic OpenVPN Linux packages.

Thanks in advance for your help, it is most appreciated!

maikcat

What steps are needed to allow other machines on my LAN to speak to the remote machines via the active OpenVPN tunnel?

it depends,

do you need pcs from both sides to belong to the same broadcast domain? (assuming you know what broadcasts are and where they are used..)

Michael.