Hello everyone,
I am fairly new at this - I have never set up an OpenVPN server before but at work I have taken on this task. We have a central LAN with a Windows 2003 server on it that I need to be able to access files on via the internet. Specifically, we have tablets in several of our cars and these cars connect to the internet via Verizon data cards. We want these tablets to be able to run a program that reads/stores files on a server here.
So I have setup an Ubuntu OpenVPN server on our LAN and followed the guide. I have a working VPN tunnel - I can ping the server from the client and vice versa. This is about where my luck runs out - I cannot ping anything else on the network.
From reading and searching I have gathered that I probably need to set up an ethernet bridge and configure my server accordingly, but this is where I get lost. I somewhat understand the concept of a bridge but the way our network is set up is confusing to me. Instead of having one public IP address, then say a router or switch directing traffic around, it appears that each computer has its own public IP address. All of the guides which I have found show how to set up the bridge for a private ip - ex "192.168.1.10". I have found one that says set the bridge address to 10.8.0.4 or something but that too does not work for me.
So, my question is - how can I figure out what to assign the bridge address, network, etc? Each time I try, I can no longer access the internet on the VPN server.
Currently my /etc/network/interfaces reads:
auto eth0
address 161.xx.xxx.14
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 161.xx.xxx.1
Any help is greatly appreciated.
