Hi all, today I experimented with OpenVPN in bridged mode using a Debian NSLU2 w/ one ethernet interface, behind a NAT router. I followed the HowTo and the bridge part at <http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/miscellaneous/ethernet-bridging.html>. So far, so good: As soon as the bridge was initialized, the box was unreachable from WAN, for all services. After hours of swearing, I found out the script and the howto miss an important point for people with devices with only one ethernet connection which also provides Internet access: Creating a bridge interface apparently kills off the routing information, so in order to reach anything which is NOT in your subnet (or be reachable from anything OUTSIDE your subnet), one has to run "route add default gw 172.16.1.1" before anything will work. Can someone with doc write access please add this? I for my part will publish my network setup and my steps on my blog, so it will at least be indexed by google ;)
Regards, Marco PS: The push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp" stuff, as specified in the sample server.conf, also doesn't work with windows clients (which are then multi-homed): A traceroute still showed the open hotspot AP as first hop, not the OpenVPN bridge or the NSLUs gateway... is this a windows bug? -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de
