Simple routing problem, lan <-> vpn lan
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Hello,
I have a very simple question/problem, but I just couldnt figure out whats wrong. My LAN has the IP range 10.0.0.1-254, where .1 is my router with ISP access. The router connects to a OpenVPN server which has a local lan behind it with the ip range 192.168.1.1-254. The client ip of the VPN connection is 192.168.1.240.
If connected, I can reach (ping) the IPs of the VPN LAN side on the router. But I cannot reach the 192.168.1.0 subnet from my clients behind the router (for example: ping 192.168.1.1 from 10.0.0.2). Heres my routing table from the router:
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 10.0.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br-lan
10.0.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
172.20.16.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun0
172.20.24.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 tap0tap0 is the OpenVPN connection. Shouldnt that work already?
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Seems like you vpn network is the same as the remote network?? That doesn't work.. So you have this
10.0.0.0/24 pfsense publicIP –- internet ---- publicIP pfsense 192.168.1.0/24
What you want to use is a different tunnel network than what is on both sides of the vpn.. So you have something like this
10.0.0.0/24 pfsense publicIP --- vpn 172.31.254.1 internet 172.31.254.2 vpn ---- publicIP pfsense 192.168.1.0/24
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Hello,
what you mean it doesnt work? Of course does it work. The OpenVPN server is in bridge mode:
option 'server_bridge' '192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.240 192.168.1.242'
I already can ping the OpenVPN server itself (192.168.1.1) and all clients on its lan. But just from the Router (VPN client), and not from my local lan clients (routing problem). See what I mean? I can reach all clients on the OpenVPN server side lan. But just from the machine where I initiate the connection from (my router). I cant reach the 192.168.1.0 subnet from my clients behind my router, and this is just a routing problem, but I coudlnt figure out yet what to do for solving this.
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Do a traceroute from your clients..
Ahhh didn't see that at first – I would never do such a setup, what is the point? I could see having to bridge if both sides where on the same network space.. Why can you just not do a normal tun connection?
Here is thread on openvpn bridging http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=38605.0
I just don't see the reason for it - if had to locations that needed to be connected via vpn, I would renumber 1 side before going bridge mode, etc.
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And why not use it this way? Whats the disadvantage of it? ALso your hint with doing a traceroute from the lan clients did the trick showing why it's not working:
Routenverfolgung zu 192.168.1.1 über maximal 30 Hops
1 1 ms 1 ms <1 ms 201.lan [10.0.0.1]
2 43 ms 19 ms 16 ms 172.20.16.1
3 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung.
4 ^CIt goes the wrong direction. But why? It goes over 172.20.16.1 which is another vpn connection. But I cant see why it goes this direction. The routing table should tell it has to go through tap0:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 10.0.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br-lan
10.0.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
172.20.16.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun0
172.20.24.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 tap0default via 10.0.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
10.0.0.0/24 dev br-lan proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.1
10.0.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.1.1
172.20.16.0/21 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.16.2
172.20.24.0/21 dev tun1 proto kernel scope link src 172.20.24.4
192.168.1.0/24 dev tap0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.240
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"Whats the disadvantage of it? "
bridge over a wan connection – all broadcast traffic is sent over a bridge, why would you want broadcast traffic over a wan based vpn?
How are you looking at your routing table.. Can you just post up the screen shot from the gui? Also do you have any policy based routing setup in your firewall rules to use specific gateway? This would be used before the routing table.
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Hello,
sorry for my late reply, Christmas time was a bit hectic :( Thanks again and you were right again. There was a policy based routing rule I didnt thinkt about, something like this:
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/24 -j MARK –set-mark 2
And I set anoher one which solved the issue:
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j MARK --set-mark 1
But now I have nother problem :/ I read myself into why I should use tun instead of tap and not bridging, because like you said it would produce lots of broadcast traffic for example. So I changed my server config to this:
config 'openvpn' 'lan' option 'enable' '1' option 'port' '1194' option 'proto' 'udp' option 'dev' 'tun2' option 'ca' '/etc/easy-rsa/keys/ca.crt' option 'cert' '/etc/easy-rsa/keys/server.crt' option 'key' '/etc/easy-rsa/keys/server.key' option 'dh' '/etc/easy-rsa/keys/dh2048.pem' #option 'ifconfig_pool_persist' '/tmp/ipp.txt' #option 'ifconfig-pool' '10.8.0.2 10.8.0.10 255.255.255.0' option 'keepalive' '10 120' option 'comp_lzo' '0' option 'persist_key' '1' option 'persist_tun' '1' option 'status' '/tmp/openvpn-status.log' option 'verb' '3' #option 'server_bridge' '192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.205' option server "10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0" list push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"But again I cant get it to work, and it's even worse now than before with the bridging, where in the end I got it to work.
First confusing thing is that it shows this on the client:
tun2 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:10.8.0.6 P-t-P:10.8.0.5 Mask:255.255.255.255And on the server:
tun2 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:10.8.0.1 P-t-P:10.8.0.2 Mask:255.255.255.255Why two adresses for each? and why does the client get 6 (and 5?) and not 2? Also I cant even ping from side to side from the client to the server. My routing table looks a little bit weird too:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 10.0.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br-lan
10.0.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
10.8.0.1 10.8.0.5 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 tun2
10.8.0.5 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tun2
172.20.16.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun0
172.20.24.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun1
192.168.1.0 10.8.0.5 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 tun2And on the server:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default 188-194-- 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1
10.8.0.0 10.8.0.2 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 tun2
10.8.0.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tun2
172.20.24.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun1
172.20.24.0 * 255.255.248.0 U 0 0 0 tun0
188.194.*.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 br-lan
