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mohtasham1983

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Registered: 2008-12-15

Posts: 85

Having troubles getting OpenVPN working

Hi,

Due to the recent actions of Iran's government in banning most websites, my brother and cousins are having trouble visiting many websites, including yahoo mail. That's why, I decided to install openvpn to allow them to surf the web through my computer.

I followed the instruction from the ArchWiki page step by step.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN_Bridge

However, when I start the daemon, I lose my wired internet connection (eth0).

I guess the only thing different for my computer than the one on the wiki page is the following part:

# Bridges and VPN setup
br0=("br0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" eth0)
BRIDGES=(br0)
vpn0=("vpn0.conf" tap0 br0)
VPNS=(vpn0)

The one on wiki page is like this:

# Bridges and VPN setup
br0=("br0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" eth0)
BRIDGES=(br0)
vpn0=("vpn0.conf" tap0 br0)
VPNS=(vpn0)

I'm not quite sure when configuring br0, what the first IP address means. I just specified 192.168.1.10 on it, since the dhcp server always assigns this address to my computer according to its settings.

Any idea what's wrong here, or do you know any other tutorial about installing openvpn on Arch?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by mohtasham1983 (2009-06-19 00:27:22)