Set Clients TAP-Device Default Gateway

KevinGregull

Hi Guys,

I got a little Problem on the Clientside. I can not access the VPN via Windows 7 as long as the Default Gateway is not set.
Windows declares the VPN Network as "Unidentified Network", so I can not make it a Homegroup, or Workgroup.
If I go to the TAP Device -> TCP/IPv4 and set the IP including the default Gateway manually it works just fine.
Of course I do not want to edit it manually everytime I connect to the VPN Server. Is there a Serverside way
to push the Default Gateway to the Client? I do not want to route every Traffic through the VPN, I am just
looking for a way to set the Default Gateway Address of the OpenVPN Network Device to the VPN Server IP.

(ipconfig shows blank default gateway)

gladiatr72

Hello,

Out of curiosity, what version of OpenVPN are you using on your Windows 7 system? I'm running 2.2-b5 on my Windows 7 VM and have no trouble connecting to either a bridge or a routed vpn link.

-Stephen

KevinGregull

OpenVPN 2.2-beta5 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 30 2010

The connection is not the Problem. I can connect without any Problems,
but Windows wont let me set the Network to a Homenetwork, becuase
it is an "Unidentified Network". When I enter the Default Gateway,
everything is working fine, only Problem is setting this automaticly when
connecting to the VPN Server.

KevinGregull

I think I got it.

route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.1