[ILUG] OT: openvpn and linksys routers

[murf]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Brendan Kehoe wrote:

> On my own host I can see the packets go by:
>
>    13:31:47.067916 IP 192.168.2.100.1235 > 192.168.20.4.1194: UDP,
>    length 60
>    13:31:47.067927 IP 192.168.2.100.1235 > 192.168.20.4.1194: UDP,
>    length 60
>    13:31:47.068512 IP 192.168.2.100.1235 > 192.168.20.4.1194: UDP,
>    length 60
>    13:31:47.068541 IP 192.168.2.100.1235 > 192.168.1.254.1194: UDP,
>    length 60
>

Well, first thing i'd check is to see if the reverse route from the 
server back to the client is ok. I've had some funny problems before, only 
to find that some machine was using the wrong route to send packets 
*back*.

Do you see anything land on the server interface itself?


> but the server's openvpn shows nothing in its log.  I've got the
> firewall disabled on the server system, and also the SPI firewall stuff
> in the server's router is disabled.  In the same, it's got the VPN
> Passthrough stuff (IPSec, etc) all enabled.
>

Openvpn uses SSL, not IPSec no?

hth,
Murf.