Lomax
Hi
I'm a OpenVPN newbie. My VPN provider just switched off PPTP support so I'm forced to use OpenVPN. I'm trying to run OpenVPN on a VMware Player running Win/XP. I have a virtual network card which is bridged to the host machine. I've installed OpenVPN and set up a configuration file provided by the VPN supplier specifically for OpenVPN. When I was running PPTP, I used to require a static persistent route but I'm confused about whether that's needed any more. OpenVPN has created a 'Tap Windows-adaptor V9' local area connection. I would like to route all traffic via the VPN including HTTP / Internet Explorer. IE works if I provide a default gateway for the bridged LAN connection but not if I remove the gateway and try to route via the Tap adaptor :
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Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x40002 ...00 ff 37 86 f0 1c ...... TAP-Windows Adapter V9
0x40004 ...00 0c 29 5a 9a 71 ...... VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter
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Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
185.75.132.0 255.255.252.0 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.71 2
192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.71 192.168.1.71 10
192.168.1.71 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 10
192.168.1.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.71 192.168.1.71 10
224.0.0.0 240.0.0.0 192.168.1.71 192.168.1.71 10
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.71 192.168.1.71 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.71 40002 1
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Persistent Routes:
Network Address Netmask Gateway Address Metric
185.75.132.0 255.255.252.0 192.168.1.254 2
I've probably got it all wrong so any suggestions would be really appreciated.
