Re: [Openvpn-devel] route from server?

[James Yonan]

Marc Hassman  said:

> A question and a suggestion:
>  
> Q: This is probably an XP problem rather than a OpenVPN one. With Windows XP
> as a client, I can 
> add an arbitrary route using the 'route' statement and I observe it being
> added in the 'route print' listing.
> However, a few seconds later the route disappears from XP's routing table.
> Has anybody else 
> experienced this?

Make sure that the TAP-Win32 adapter is getting an IP address.  From a command
prompt window, "ipconfig /all" will show the currently assigned adapter
addresses.  If the TAP adapter loses its IP address, all routes connected with
the adapter will be dropped.

> S: It would be helpful when running in a 1 config file/tcp/tap/inetd setup
> if the server end of the connection
> could push static routes to the client thereby making a change a single
> server file change and not a 
> per client file change. I think this might be beneficial to other setups as
> well.

This is planned for 2.0.

James

[Openvpn-devel] route from server?

[Marc Hassman]

A question and a suggestion:

Q: This is probably an XP problem rather than a OpenVPN one. With Windows XP
as a client, I can 
add an arbitrary route using the 'route' statement and I observe it being
added in the 'route print' listing.
However, a few seconds later the route disappears from XP's routing table.
Has anybody else 
experienced this?

S: It would be helpful when running in a 1 config file/tcp/tap/inetd setup
if the server end of the connection
could push static routes to the client thereby making a change a single
server file change and not a 
per client file change. I think this might be beneficial to other setups as
well.

Thanks for your efforts, 
Marc H