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OpenVPN - iptables restrict one IP's access to only some servers

I have a large OpenVPN network. Most of the addresses have free access to one another. However a few IPs need to be restricted to only a couple of other IPs. For example 10.8.0.6 can only be ...
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OpenVPN hostname resolve not working with DNSMASQ

I have got OpenVPN and DNSMASQ up and running, but when I push my server IP as a DNS server to the client, hostname resolving isn't working. Accessing Servers on the internet via ip is working, so no ...
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How to log VPN traffic? [closed]

I have the following services running: root 780 1 0 May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/ipsec/starter root 782 780 0 May18 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/ipsec/pluto --nofork --uniqueids ...
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Accessing DLNA over VPN [migrated]

I have set up a VPN server using OpenVPN on my home Ubuntu 10 box as a means to access my home network drives and media drives whilst at work and on the move. I get a valid connection, can ping and ...
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Exclude one protocol from VPN on Windows

How can I exclude one single protocol from a VPN connection on Windows? I wish to keep NNTP connections off my VPN connection. I know which port it uses (443, SSL enabled). The goal is to keep high ...
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openvpn routing setup for incoming connections on client

I have a debian server, call it A, that is connected as an openvpn client to another network. Server A is also http and email server accepting connections from the internet. Now, one of the servers on ...
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OpenVPN routing issue / wrong configuration [closed]

I am trying to set up a VPN client/server connection and be able to actually access the devices in my home network from the outside world (The OpenVPN server is a RaspberryPi within the local network) ...
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bridge on openVPN client

I have some problem with setting up what i call a "remote entry point" (i'm sure ther is a real name for this) First things First : Here is my setup : ...
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OpenVPN connects but gets invalid IP on Tap Device

I have a WinXP SP2 box trying to connect on a OpenVPN server and getting the following errors: Tue May 14 11:29:52 2013 Notified TAP-Windows driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of ...
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OpenVPN - possible to log failed authentications?

I do not know how the OpenVPN authentication protocol works in detail, which is why I am wondering if there is a possibility to log failed authentications. E.g. if I try to use a invalid key file. I ...
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OpenVPN pass through to lan and out second internet connection

I asked on SuperUser, was told it might be best to ask on here, so here we go. I want to run OpenVPN on a computer connected to a FiOS connection on one NIC, then pass that traffic onto the LAN, and ...
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DD-WRT home VPN setup..help needed [migrated]

I currently have 2 routers. Router 1 is my primary gateway. It is actiontec wifi router that I got from frontier communications. (192.168.1.1) Router 2 is a Netgear N600 Dual Band, DD-WRT based ...
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Unable to use gateway once in OpenVPN

I'm trying to get an OpenVPN server working to give clients access to a network that is 10.202.0.0/16. I'd like the OpenVPN clients range to be 10.202.46.1-255. I have configured the server, and can ...
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OpenVPN server cannot ping client

First of all apologies if this has been answered anywhere else, but I Have been googling around for a few days and it is driving me crazy now. I have installed OpenVPN server on a CentOS VPS hosted ...
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I lost SSH access to my server after install openvpn [closed]

I use this script to install openVpn server on my linux server 6.3. Everything is ok but after i reboot my server i loss my server access using putty also WinSCP (Putty show Server Unexpectedly closed ...
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How to solve different OpenVPN behaviour of 2 clients

TL;DR I am trying to connect 2 machines to an OpenVPN system, with the same settings one client works and the other doesn't. Situation The server I'm trying to connect to is a pfSense based OpenVPN ...
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openvpn (tun0 + bridge) : Comunication bridge --> tun0 works but not the opposite direction

My network is composed as follows: Host A with ip 9.x.x.x and vpn ip 192.15.206.x (openvpn client) Host B with ip 9.x.x.x and vpn ip 192.15.206.1 (openvpn server) this host has a bridge br0 with ip ...
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Packets do not reach FILTER chain of iptables

I have a problem I cant figure out, I am trying to access webserver on [RPI], but packets never reach iptables FILTER chain I will try to explain it a bit: GW1 has public address and doing DNAT from ...
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OpenVPN (2.2.1) on Ubuntu 12.04: works on wlan0, not on eth0

I have a weird situation, if I'm connected to the Internet using wlan0 and connect with OpenVPN all goes well. If I try to do it over eth0 and ping through the VPN (tun0), I get "operation not ...
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OpenVPN : Cannot SSH or MySQL properly

I have been happy with OpenVPN so far. But I have other issues. Following is the situation right now : - OpenVPN server installed on Amazon Linux. - OpenVPN client installed on Windows 7. - Set up ...
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SSH through OpenVPN on iPhone

I have problem with connecting to my SSH server through OpenVPN from my iPhone. I can successfully connect from my PC so all settings are good. OpenVPN also works well ("connected") - I can see VPN ...
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OpenVPN bridge failed to forward packet

I have a pair of OpenVPN bridge working for my school. The bridge works well, it did bridge ip traffic between the 2 sites. My problem is, if a user turn on a PC after the bridge has already started. ...
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OpenVPN server on Windows 7 - How to route specific IP addresses to clients?

Okay, so I do not have a strong background per se in computing, nor networking, and I'm really just starting to learn this stuff now, for a relatively small family business of ours. It is rather ...
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Need to programmatically cycle openvpn

I'm running openvpn client 2.2.0 on ubuntu 11.10 and I need a way to programmatically restart the process. I have a script that starts up openvpn fine the first time, but then on subsequent restarts ...
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Using iptables to route all internal data to tun0 from eth0

Looking for a few answers ;) I'm running Zentyal on a gateway. The gateway is also an OpenVPN client, to a server I run out of another country. Interfaces are thus : External : eth1 (dhcp from the ...
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What's the meaning of “\x38\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00” in openvpn connection using netcat?

I am testing my openvpn server by netcat, and I found this answer: How to check that an OpenVPN server is listening on a remote port without using OpenVPN client? by send a magic string ...
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OpenVPN networks conflict

When having an OpenVPN instance working fine I'm having troubles with networks conflict in some specific circumstances. The setup is as this: tun-mode clients' network in OpenVPN: 172.16.159/24 ...
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OpenVPN Allow Servers to talk to VPN Clients

I have setup a VPC in Amazon with 2 subnets. The public subnet has a ip range of 10.0.0.XXX and a private subnet with a ip range of 10.0.1.XXX my OpenVPN sits on 10.0.0.100 and hands out ip from the ...
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OpenVPN - Client traffic is not entirely routed through VPN

I installed OpenVPN on my dedicated server. Using Viscosity or Tunnelblick on the client, I successfully connected to this server. However, after some tests, I realized that not all the traffic ...
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OpenVPN - Windows redirect log to windows event log

Running OpenVPN as a service, How do I redirect the log (which defaults saves to \program files\openvpn\log or if --log is specified) to windows event logger. I don't want to store logs in more ...
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here filtering terminate TLS in openvpn but not ssl

I have configured an openvpn sever appliance on vmware and windows 2008 R2 and set it to use port 80 for openvpn, iphone and ipad could connect to it but windows and mac could't and generated error in ...
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Upstart and openvpn

I need to have OpenVPN restart if it fails. Upstart with respawn seems the best way to do this, but after working through the example over here it seems that OpenVPN forks 14 times! Which means ...
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OpenVPN Server subnet addresses conflict

Where I work we have the same subnet pool (192.168.1.x) that I have at home. Hence I can't reach to home's subnet addresses when connected to the OpenVPN Server. What's the best/easiest way to ...
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How do I connect Untangle to my own OpenVPN server (non-Untangle box)?

Here is a copy/paste from another question on the site that the OP "answered" but never actually posted up how he managed to do so. I would like to do this exact thing and since I now see it is ...
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openvpn up script execute command in schroot

We would like to control a service in a chroot environment utilising scripts run during an openvpn up and down sequence. Host OS is ubuntu-12-04, chroot environment runs ubuntu-12-10 A session has ...
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Logging OpenVPN/PPTP connections

I currently have a default setup of OpenVPN and PPTP. I was wondering how I can enable the most verbose logging of the services so in case of abuse we can track down who's IP did what?
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Iptable forward configuration

I have OpenVPN and PPTP installed on a VPS. I'm having a few questions that I can't seem to get a firm answer on. I want to install OpenVPN on 1.1.1.1 (eth0, public IP address) and PPTP on 1.1.1.2 ...
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Running multiple site-to-site with openvpn

I'm planning to connect two offices in two diffrenet locations with Openvpn, here I know that I can use site-to-site for my purpose, But the offices will grow in the future up to 10 or more and all of ...
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How can I log OpenVPN packet contents?

I'm designing a developer tool that would analyse and debug arbitrary network connections, but I want to provide it as a service rather than software to be installed locally. Ideally I would like to ...
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Ensure PPTP / OpenVPN clients cannot interact with each other?

How can one ensure that PPTP / OpenVPN will not allow clients connected to the tunnels to be able to interact with each others? I never enabled bridging and enabled the following in iptables ...
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Default gateway and bridged interface

I have slackware based server with openvpn bridging, this is my settings of interfaces: root@senior:/# ifconfig br0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet ...
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Windows xp / ubuntu server openvpn server windows 7 client, share don't work

I have a windows xp pc in office, and i want reach it from home with openvpn. I try two thing. In office we have one ubuntu server, i install openvpn on ubuntu server, connect the xp pc as client, ...
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SMB share client side connection (Win7 with net use) is very slow

I have a SMB share on a CentOS server. Windows 7 based clients connect to the server via OpenVPN. Then net use is used to init the share. On some clients (not all) I am experiencing very long ...
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Cannot access Hyper-V machine via OpenVPN

We have an XP/SP3 Hyper-V machine running at Windows2012 Server. There is no problem to connect that virtual machine via mstsc or ping it from within our LAN. We have a branch in other city. They ...
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OpenVpn Error : selfsigned certificate verify failed

I'm using openVpn in creating a client/server program for data transmission (gaming). I used openssl selfsigned certificate options to prevent users from touching open vpn and all levels works ...
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Ways to dynamically control which clients can talk to each other over OpenVPN

Here's the scenario: Suppose we have let's say 7 users in the system: A to G. We want to create some OpenVPN solution where we can dynamically control which of the connected clients can talk to each ...
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OpenVPN Endpoint to endpoint using the real IPs

I want to connect two servers to eachother over the internet. For various reasons I cannot use IPSec for this. I would like traffic to be transparently encrypted as if I was using IPSec transport ...
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Preventing abuse on a local VPN Network [closed]

Are there ways to secure a public VPN to prevent people who are on from attempting to dos or port scan other hosts on the same local network on an OpenVPN VPN?
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Tomato/DD-WRT router firmware, how to restrict mac address to only allow openVPN client connection? [closed]

I want to estable a openVPN connection on one of my computers. But I want to make sure that the connection is secure by filtering everything except for openVPN. Therefore openVPN will be the only way ...
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How secure is OpenVPN on a public server

If I use a VPN Connection on a server that many others use as well for their VPNs, is there any chance they could sniff my traffic or see my packets as we are on the same local network? If so, how do ...

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