[arm-allstar] OpenVPN & Hamvoip

[Rob Seaman]

Hi Dave,

Unfortunately I'm not that knowledgeable with OpenVPN and I think I was just lucky it worked first time out of the box for me. The only other thing I could think of would be some firewall or IPtables configuration on the SSH port to your server?

I see there was a suggestion about client-to-client connections in the server config.  I do have a similar issue with OpenVPN on my Synology NAS box at home, but it isn't too great an issue as everything I need to access is on the same LAN at home as the NAS, so I haven't gotten around to looking at it further.

What OpenVPN on my Synology NAS box can do which my Allstar OpenVPN server can't, is reach devices on the network "behind" the remote device.  (Eg: I can't get to the mobile broadband router that the remote Allstar node is connected to on IP 192.168.0.254).  I was doing some reading of the OpenVPN forums and have one or two things to try.  I do find the OpenVPN docs quite technical, whereas the OpenVPN forums are a bit easier to get an understanding from others who have experienced similar issues.

 Cheers,

Rob...
VK6LD


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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