On Friday 28 Jan 2011 11:57:30 Stefan Hellermann wrote:

> > Are you using the "multihome" option in the server configuration? As far
> > as I can tell, using "multihome" uses the PKTINFO information to source
> > UDP replies from the correct IP address; however, while it does work for
> > IPv4, I don't know if that functionality has been ported to IPv6
> > already. I'm CC-ing the devel list as well.
> 
> No I haven't tried multihome, and I don't know why I haven't seen this
> option before... Why isn't this the default?
> But, it seems it doesn't work for IPv6 yet, I get this:
> 
> Jan 28 11:37:22 openvpn(server)[17978]: read UDPv6 [NO-INFO]: Connection
> refused (code=146)
> Jan 28 11:37:24 openvpn(server)[17978]: read UDPv6 [NO-INFO]: Connection
> refused (code=146)
> Jan 28 11:37:26 openvpn(server)[17978]: read UDPv6 [NO-INFO]: Connection
> refused (code=146)
> Jan 28 11:37:29 openvpn(server)[17978]: read UDPv6 [NO-INFO]: Connection
> refused (code=146)

Not 100% sure but this may mean that multihome has not been ported to IPv6 
yet. Perhaps you can open a ticket at

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn

(you have to register and login first).

> With tcp6-server this works.

Yes, because with TCP the source address selection is performed directly by 
the OS internally. Using TCP was indeed the suggested workaround before UDP 
multihoming was introduced in OpenVPN.

-- 
D.

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