Bridged mode on Windows 7 as server and Windows 7 as client.

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Ok I have succesfully configured OpenVPN on my home router which runs dd-wrt, I am able to connect to it no problem and everything works gravy. I have some elementary understanding of how OpenVPN works with certificates, UDP ports, config files etc


Now I have been trying to setup OpenVPN at my workplace so I and others can tunnel into our work network securely. Now we use a propeitary router device that I cannot run OpenVPN on so I figured I would use my desktop pc as the OpenVPN server. My desktop IP has an internal IP of 10.10.1.119 and has an external IP of say 90.90.90.90. I created a NAT statement on our work router to translate anything from the 90.90.90.90 on port 1194 UDP and TCP to go to 10.10.1.119. I have used the bridging guide at openvpn.net but I have not been successful in getting any external windows clients to even establish the initial connection to the OpenVPN server. I would like the OpenVPN server to run in bridged mode and grab and for clients to grab an IP from our internal dhcp server so that I can connect to other clients and machines in our network as if I was physically plugged into one of our network lan ports (I DO NOT want to run in routed mode because we use broadcast traffic for various applications we run).

Can Anyone help with config files for this? Our DHCP server is 10.10.1.9 and our internal DNS servers are 10.10.1.8 and 10.10.1.6. My PC has a static IP of 10.10.1.119 and any ip from 10.10.1.25 to 30 is outside the dhcp scope. Our network is a class B subnet so the netmask is 255.255.0.0.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, I have worked for this for days and I have gotten no where.

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