need Openvpn routing help

[Charlie Farinella]

On Friday 13 June 2008, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> This doesn't sound like an OpenVPN thing at all.  Does MachineB know 
that it's 
> supposed to route traffic between it's 10.8.0/24 network and it's 
10.10.0/24 
> network?  If it knows that much, then OpenVPN doesn't have to be 
involved at 
> all and you just add the route as you specified.
> -N

You're the second person to phrase it that way, "does the machine know 
that it's supposed to route traffic".  Showing my ignorance I will ask 
how do I make sure it "knows" to do this.  I thought running the route 
command did that, but apparently there's more.  

thanks,

--charlie

> On Friday 13 June 2008 13:03, Charlie Farinella wrote:
> > I have 2 Openvpn clients.
> > MachineA (10.8.0.6)
> > MachineB (10.8.0.10)
> >
> > MachineA has 2 physical ethernet cards:
> >     192.168.x.1
> >     10.10.0.10
> >
> > I need to add a route from MachineB (10.8.0.10) to the second 
ethernet
> > interface on MachineA (10.10.0.10).  My clients can see and connect 
to
> > each other.
> >
> > I have set "route add -net 10.10.0.10 -netmask 255.255.255.0 
10.8.0.6",
> > but cannot ping the address and running traceroute doesn't show it 
using
> > 10.8.0.6 as the gateway.  I have tried various permutations of the
> > above with no luck and feel like I am missing an important part of 
this
> > puzzle.
> >
> > If someone is good with Openvpn, I could use some help.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --charlie
> 
> 



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