OpenVPN + Shorewall

Posted by: rob

OpenVPN + Shorewall - 14/07/2005 14:48

I've installed OpenVPN on a Debian box using Shorewall, with connections coming from Windows hosts. I can connect and authenticate but no traffic will route. After some hours of playing I'm not sure why - it looks like a firewall and/or routing problem. Are there any networking experts out there that might be able to help? I'm happy to pay for some consultancy.

Thanks

Rob

Posted by: mlord

Re: OpenVPN + Shorewall - 14/07/2005 17:15

Just in case you missed it, there is this info from the original Shorewall author.

Posted by: andym

Re: OpenVPN + Shorewall - 14/07/2005 17:25

It sounds like fun Rob, I've done a bit of VPN stuff myself, although purely for home, I don't think I'd dare ask for money to help, although Saturday is currently free.

Posted by: rob

Re: OpenVPN + Shorewall - 14/07/2005 21:41

Quote:
Just in case you missed it, there is this info from the original Shorewall author.

I followed that HowTo pretty much to the letter, except that I'm not running ShoreWall on the clients (but Windows firewall is disabled for the tunnel). I have a rule to route from the VPN to the local network but nonetheless Shorewall appears to be throwing out all such traffic.

Rob

Posted by: rob

Re: OpenVPN + Shorewall - 14/07/2005 21:43

Quote:
It sounds like fun Rob, I've done a bit of VPN stuff myself, although purely for home, I don't think I'd dare ask for money to help, although Saturday is currently free.

Thanks Andy, your help would have been much appreciated, but I have a friend visiting this weekend and I suspect that VPN fixing wouldn't go down that well (no accounting for taste).

Rob