Unable to access router on home network via tunnel

CraftyClown

Evening folks,

I currently have two OpenVPN servers (one at home and one at work) both set up and working well and accessible from multiple clients.

I can remote desktop onto both networks and can also access SMB shares successfully on both.

The one problem I still can't solve is being unable to access my home router via my tunnel (the work one is fully accessible) but the home one just won't load. There are no problems server side. The router's address is 192.168.20.1.

Is there something I'm missing in my scripts?

mode server
port 1196
proto udp
dev tun
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh4096.pem
server 10.9.0.0 255.255.255.0
push "route 192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0"
keepalive 10 120
cipher AES-256-CBC
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 4
explicit-exit-notify 1

client
ca "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\home5\\ca.crt"
cert "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\home5\\home5.crt"
key "C:\\Program Files\\OpenVPN\\config\\home5\\home5.key"

dev tun
proto udp
remote  ****
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
remote-cert-tls server
cipher AES-256-CBC
comp-lzo
verb 4

CraftyClown

I just tested on a remote machine and after accessing both tunnels I can only ping the router on the work machine. So there is definitely something wrong with my setup.

I tried turning off the firewall on the home VPN server (Windows 10) as well, but that made no difference. I wanted to take that out of the equation.

TinCanTech

CraftyClown wrote after accessing both tunnels

And yet you only have details for one of your tunnels ..

CraftyClown

TinCanTech wrote
CraftyClown wrote after accessing both tunnels
And yet you only have details for one of your tunnels ..

Because I have no issues with the other tunnel.

I've actually fixed the issue. I had forgotten to do the advanced routing on my home router!

It was a process of elimination once I took the Windows firewall out of the equation, as I was fairly certain the OpenVPN scripting was correct.

All good now cheers 🙂

TinCanTech

CraftyClown wrote Because I have no issues with the other tunnel

Yes but if you are running two VPNs we need to know the details otherwise it could be a conflict of many types.

CraftyClown wrote I've actually fixed the issue.

Thanks for letting us know 8-)