Re: Routing between multipule Tunnels

Murray Thomson writes:
> I want to  set up a spider topology with OpenVPN. OpenVPN server A has 
> an OpenVPN tunnel to each of Servers B, C and D each with their own subnet.
> 
> The problem is that from Server B,C or D I can not communicate with any 
> server other thatn A. From A however I can reach S,C and D and any 
> station on their respective subnets. Also from a station on subnet A I 
> can also get to B, C and D and also on their respective subnets.
> 
> For some reason I cannot get from one of the arms streight through the 
> main server and back out again.
> 
> Does anyone know it this is not a workable topology or is there 
> something else I need to do to make this fly.

It's perfectly workable.  For Older OpenVPN you just need kernel
routing (and packet filtering) set up properly.  Newer OpenVPN can
handle the server-A routing itself within a single OpenVPN daemon.

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