Hi folks! after using openvpn for some years now, and silently reading the posts on this list, it looks like I now need help myself..
In my office, I have an internal LAN, (not very surprising) 192.168.1.* which connects PCs, Printers, some ohter devices. The "main" PC runs Linux and is the firewall, router, openvpn server, print server, and, and, and ... Interfaces: eth0: 81.223.xxx.xxx / 255.255.255.248 to the outside world eth1: 192.168.1.1 / 255.255.255.0 tun0: 192.168.3.1 / 255.255.255.255 I can connect to the office-LAN from Laptop, smartphone, Home-PC .... Everything's fine. -------- Now, on my PC at home (Linux too), I installed WIN-7 inside a Vmware virtual machine. Getting access from Win-7 to the office LAN seems to be too complicated for my vpn knowledge. ifconfig@Home-PC: eno1: 192.168.12.11 / 255.255.255.0 <== DHCP-assigned from the cable modem/router tun1: 192.168.3.10 / 255.255.255.255 vmnet1: 172.16.142.1/ 255.255.255.0 <== automacigally assigned by vmware vment8: 172.16.254.1/ 255.255.255.0 Kernel routing table: Ziel Router Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default 192.168.12.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eno1 172.16.142.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet1 172.16.254.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 vmnet8 192.168.1.0 192.168.3.9 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 tun1 192.168.3.0 192.168.3.9 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 tun1 192.168.3.9 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tun1 192.168.12.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eno1 Now, as said above, from LInux I've got access to the office LAN. But how can achieve LAN access from the WIN-VM ? For the vmware virtual network adapter, I have 3 possibillities, bridged, NAT, Host-only. If I set the vmware-adapter to bridged mode, it shares the host's physical eno1. WIN immediately has access to the outside world. In this scenario, I could install a 2nd openvpn-client in WIN7 and would have access to the office LAN. But if I understand it correctly, a package from WIN7 to the Linux-host (192.168.3.10) would travel through one tunnel all the way to the office and through the 2nd tunnel back to the linux host. This seems a bit of nonsens to me. How could a better setup look like? A vpn-bridge office-LAN <-> home-LAN ?? Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
