[arm-allstar] OpenVPN & Hamvoip

[Rob Seaman]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply and hope it helps others on the list.

Yes I used OpenVPN client on my Win10 PC to connect to the VPN server (with its own .ovpn profile) and it gets a 10.80.0.21 IP.
The OpenVPN server is 10.80.0.1.
The remote Allstar node (with its own different .ovpn profile) gets IP 10.80.0.11.

Once the VPN is connected on the Win10 computer, I used Putty to SSH from the Win10 PC to 10.80.0.11 and can work on my node hundreds of miles away.

I didn't have to do any additional configuration to my VPN server config file to allow client-to-client connection between VPN clients via the server as it appeared to allow this out of the box with the install script I used.  Reading through the OpenVPN forums, it does appear there is a client-client config setting, but I didn't have to do any changes to enable it in my instance, so I don't have references other than the 4 websites I used.

Cheers,

Rob...
VK6LD

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Rob,

Thanks for an interesting solution to a common problem.  You mentioned
using your win10 computer to SSH to your difficult to reach node.  I
presume you used an openVPN client on the win10 to also connect to the
openVPN server.  Did that require further configuration of the server to
allow client-to-client connection? If so, do you have a reference for
the steps do that?

Dave k6dvd