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I want my client to be able to access the internet outside of the vpn subnet.

I have this server config file https://pastebin.com/9RVWrCKE

And this client one https://pastebin.com/38NrZxBK The certificates and real IP address of the server have been removed.

I can ping at its local network IP address via and I believe that this also allows me to access anything else on that network. I don't have anything else on that network to test with though. I would like to be able to something similar for the whole internet but adding something like to let me access 8.8.8.8 but it doesn't let me get though.

I have turned on IP forwarding though in and reloaded it with Looking at viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10923 I am at 'Is NAT enabled on the VPN subnet?' but there is no reference on how to check and enable it so I am stuck there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks :)

polarbub wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:08 am

I would like to be able to something similar for the whole internet but adding something like

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push "route 8.8.8.0 255.255.255.0"

to let me access 8.8.8.8 but it doesn't let me get though.

See --redirect-gateway in the manual.

There is also a section in the howto.

I already have in my server config. Do I need to use something different? Also can I have a link to the specific howto page please?