Re: [Openvpn-users] Beta11 - client-to-client

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Adam Pavelec wrote:

> I've been experiencing a problem regarding the client-to-client directive in 
> my bridged configuration.  It seems that when I have two or more remote 
> clients behind the same subnet requesting resources from eachother by netbios 
> name, their traffic is routed through the OpenVPN tunnel instead of being 
> routed locally.  I've been running Beta11 since its release, and it seems 
> that this issue has just recently appeared.  Am I missing something in my 
> server configuration to prevent this from happening?

I guess it "works as designed". As you have created a bridge you now have 
two "local subnets" connecting these two hosts, just like if you have had 
two physical network adapters in each machine and had connected them both 
between these machines.

It's a matter of name resolution. Unfortunally I don't know how you should 
be able to set a "prefered" subnet. Windows will probably broadcast both 
subnets, or use the IP address it receives from a WINS server if you have 
specified one.

I can only think of two ugly work arounds. Add the local hosts you want to 
communicate with locally to your LMHOSTS file or add statical entries in 
the WINS server.

You could also try the changing the network adapter binding order to see 
if that have any effect.

Maybe the metric value for the "local subnet" route can have some effect 
too.

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