How can I get this to work?
Hours of configuring - and no result. Is that possible at all?
P.S. UDP broadcasts are needed by old games for LAN play.
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Removed "belongs-on-superuser" tag -- this is a networking question with a VPN server, and belongs here.– Karl KatzkeAug 10, 2009 at 12:14
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Are you using TAP devices?
To communicate by broadcast, all participants need to be in the same broadcast domain.
This requires bridging.
answered Jul 27, 2009 at 10:20
UDP Broadcasts are not forwarded to another interface then the main one. U are fine using UDP as protocol for OpenVPN. TCP would create to much traffic for playing games.
For finding games using openvpn i wrote a tool that clones udp broadcasts from the main interface to the other existing ones.
That makes you find most LAN-Games. Make sure your IP-Range of the VPN is set to some 192.168.xxx.xxx cause some games restrict hosts in LAN from different IPs.
I just released a stable version of the tool we are using. i you still need something to solve you problem check out link this link.
greets
Make sure that the "client-to-client" option is turned on in the server config.
Also, you probably want to be running in bridged mode, not routed.
