bilbonvidia Hello, I have been looking at the guides on the open dns website and am trying to set up a bridge connection. I have created the bridge on my windows 7 machine and assigned a static address to the bridge. I can get connected to my vpn server windows 7 machine and the tap adapter on my windows 7 client gets an ip address but I cannot ping anything on my lan. I was wondering if I had missed anything. (firewalls disabled) heres my files: server: port 443 proto tcp dev tap dev-node tap-bridge ca ca.crt cert server.crt key server.key dh dh1024.pem server-bridge 192.168.0.3 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.110 client-to-client keepalive 10 120 cipher AES-256-CBC persist-key persist-tun verb 3 mute 20 client: client dev tap proto tcp remote mydyndnsaddy 443 resolv-retry infinite nobind tls-client persist-key persist-tun mute-replay-warnings ca ca.crt cert client1.crt key client1.key cipher AES-256-CBC comp-lzo verb 3
maikcat hi there, just checking.. are you using openvpn ver 2.1 and above? did you rename your bridge connection to tap-bridge ? 192.168.0.3 is the openvpn servers ip? did you enabled ip forwarding to your server? Michael.
bilbonvidia Hi Mike Thanks for responding. I am using 2.1 and above and yes the bridge connection is tap-bridge which had originally caught me out. Yes 192.168.0.3 is tthe servers ip. I dont think that I have enable ip forwarding, how is that done? Is that still needed when bridging?
janjust on windows, IP forwarding is enabled using a registry key Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters Value: IPEnableRouter Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x00000001 (1) reboot the machine after enabling IP forwarding.
janjust yes , this needs to be done on the machine running the bridge; I hope that is your openvpn server.
