Hi,

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:52:05PM +0200, David Sommerseth wrote:
> > for client-to-server traffic this looks correct ; client-to-client
> > traffic is another matter.
> 
> Yes, good point.  But that traffic never hits the tun/tap interface
> (unless the destination IP is a broadcast address; and IIRC, OpenVPN
> treats multicast as unicast traffic).

And unless "--client-to-client" is not set (which it isn't by default!).

Then the openvpn server will forward all client-to-client traffic towards
the tun/tap interface, only to have the other side send it back *after
firewall inspection*.

gert
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