I'm having trouble getting past the first hurdle, ie. successful pings. My objectives is this:
Stage 1. Setup OPENVPN on my home network 192.168.1.xxx, such that my PC and Laptop can ping each other.
Stage 2. Extend the setup such that external machines (friends/family) can connect through my public IP, via Port Forwarding, into my VPN home network
CONFIGURATIONS: PC = Win Vista, Laptop = Win XP, both on OpenVPN 2.1_rc15, both allowed UDP port 1194 in Firewall settings
Nevermind Stage 2 for now, I am stuck with 1
Keeping it simple, I wanted to test the most basic setup, ie. Static Key, and I followed instructions here
http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentat ... howto.html
Problem is after OPENVPN is fired up on both server/client, and IPCONFIG shows they have a new address 10.8.0.1 / 10.8.0.2 respectively, the machines cannot ping each other. I would have thought if they're on the same subnet, PING should be no problems.
Without resolving this step, I believe it's pointless to even attempt Stage 2.
Thanks for any assistance you can render (I'm not a networking expert by any stretch of imagination, but I like to persist ...)
John S
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On the PC server, I have this config file
dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.1 10.8.0.2
secret static.key
On the Laptop client, I have this config file
;remote myremote.mydomain
dev tun
ifconfig 10.8.0.2 10.8.0.1
secret static.key
I had commented out the remote entry as the client isn't coming from external yet.
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I fired up OPENVPN on server, everything seems OK
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 OpenVPN 2.1_rc15 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 19 2008
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \\.\Global\{BB3D6041-84D0-45EC-9AF5-B1E5A342335A}.tap
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.8.0.1/255.255.255.252 on interface {BB3D6041-84D0-45EC-9AF5-B1E5A342335A} [DHCP-serv: 10.8.0.2, lease-time: 31536000]
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 Successful ARP Flush on interface [23] {BB3D6041-84D0-45EC-9AF5-B1E5A342335A}
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Sun Apr 05 17:27:03 2009 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Server IPCONFIG shows this:
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::41b5:eb8f:8760:fadd%23
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.8.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.252
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home.gateway
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::49c6:96f4:2928:953e%10
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.100
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
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I fired up OPENVPN on client, everything seems OK
Client IPCONFIG shows this:
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 OpenVPN 2.1_rc15 i686-pc-mingw32 [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Nov 19 2008
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA. OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \\.\Global\{B368FC60-5C2E-4364-8002-0DD1F9477052}.tap
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.8.0.2/255.255.255.252 on interface {B368FC60-5C2E-4364-8002-0DD1F9477052} [DHCP-serv: 10.8.0.1, lease-time: 31536000]
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 Successful ARP Flush on interface [327686] {B368FC60-5C2E-4364-8002-0DD1F9477052}
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Sun Apr 05 16:31:23 2009 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Client IPCONFIG shows this:
Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : home.gateway
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.254
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 3:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.8.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.252
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
