Re: Ping Test

On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:45, herwam herwam wrote:
> Hi,
> In Troubeshooting guide one wrote: "Make sure that each host can ping the
> other
> using the "remote" address from the config file
> BEFORE starting up OpenVPN."
>
> But If i have a ICMP packetes blocketd, but i see the other end (throuw tcp
> packets) will this work? Uses Openvpn the ICMP packets?

No, OpenVPN doesn't use ICMP packets.  The ping test is just there to 
determine if there's actually a network connection between the two OpenVPN 
hosts.

James


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