Re: [Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-25 Thread roman
hi again! For only three sites then there's little argument - just go meshed. Howeveer, if you have any expectations of adding more sites, sit down before you start and think about your addressing/naming schemes - it's easier to be logical from the start than to renumber networks later

[Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-24 Thread roman
dear list! I'm currently trying to connect two LANs via an openvpn-tunnel from router to router (with their LAN-IPs). So far each router is able to ping all computers on the other end of the tunnel. What I still can't get to work is the connection from one computer to the router or any other

Re: [Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-24 Thread Russel
Both routers are the default gateways for their LAN. I don't think I need to setup any kind of masquerading for this to work. I'm fairly certain that you do need to setup some masquerading for this to work. I'm having a bit of a hard time visualizing your configuration because your tun interfaces

Re: [Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-24 Thread roman
hy again! thanks for your answer! I'm fairly certain that you do need to setup some masquerading for this to work. AFAIK masquerading is only needed if one part of the network is not able to address another directly (with its original IP), which should not be the case here. So I still hope

Re: [Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-24 Thread Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
Hi, 1) Did you check the shorewall-tunnels file? 2) Did you verify if openvpn is dropping the packet or iptables? 3) Did you add the policy on both nodes? You can do the second by checking the openvpn.log file, and the shorewall.log file (assuming you've gotten ulogd installed). Also, one VPN

Re: [Shorewall-users] connecting two LANs via VPN

2006-12-24 Thread Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
Choices depend on whether you want point to point between all three sites, or whether you can take the hit of one extra hop. In the latter case, you can simply setup one server and make all else clients. All traffic will be routed through your server of course. Prasanna. On 12/25/06, roman