[arm-allstar] OpenVPN & Hamvoip

[David]

Rob,

I am trying to use openVPN server running on a Rasp Pi at a friend's 
house.  I have openVPN clients on my hamvoip allstar node and also on my 
win10 PC.  Both the clients successfully connect to the server but using 
Putty on the PC fails  to connect through the server to the allstar 
node.  Both clients show tunnel connections with different ip addresses 
within same 10.8.0.x subnet.  Using the VPN assigned 10.8.0.x addresses 
I can ping from the allstar node to the PC but not the other way.  Any 
troubleshooting suggestions?

-Dave k6dvd

On 9/8/2020 10:48 PM, "Rob Seaman via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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
>
>
>
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