Client can access server, server cannot access client

crunchygeek

Hello,

New OpenVPN user and new to the forum. I have OpenVPN 2.1.3 installed on a Windows 2008 server (server) and on a Windows 7 client (client). I am using the default 10.8.0.0 class. I have full communications between the client (10.8.0.6) and server (10.8.0.1) using the 10.8.0.X addressing. I am trying to get it to where I can access the server and client by their internal LAN addresses. Here is my setup.

Here is the auto created route on the server:
10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.2

Here is the auto created route on the client:
10.8.0.1 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.5

I added a static route on the server as follows:
192.168.1.115 255.255.255.255 10.8.0.2

I am pushing the 192.168.2.239 route to the client in server.ovpn.

I am not sure where the .2 and .5 gateway IPs are coming from in the server and client auto created routes but they are working so that is why I used .2 as the gateway on the server static route.

The client can access the server using the server LAN IP (192.168.2.237). But the server cannot access the client using the client internal LAN IP (192.168.1.115). It can't even ping. Again, both the server and client can fully access each other using their 10.8.0.X addresses.

Any ideas? I know it has to be something simple

janjust

this is "normal" behaviour: the server is not aware of the subnet 192.168.1/24 , which is behind/on the VPN client. Pushing a route is not enough, you also need to add an 'iroute' for that particular client. Read up on http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#scope for details.