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Re: [Openvpn-users] route keywords not substituting


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] route keywords not substituting
  • From: "Rafael Rosen" <rr236@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 21:33:47 -0500 (EST)
  • Importance: Normal

Yup that does it.  Guess I'll just specify a subnet mask for everything. 
Thanks a bunch, both for the software and the help.

Rafe

> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Rafael Rosen wrote:
>
>> Hi there.  Thanks so much for a great VPN solution.  I'm using OpenVPN
>> in
>> routing mode to allow road warriors to tunnel into our network to bypass
>> the firewall.  However, I'm having a problem using the route option's
>> keywords for special gateways- it seems like they're not substituting
>> correctly.  A statement such as the following in the client config:
>>
>> route mlvpn.ornith.cornell.edu net_gateway
>
> Try:
>
>   route mlvpn.ornith.cornell.edu 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
>
>>
>> Produces the following error message when I connect:
>>
>> Thu Dec  1 13:31:34 2005 us=182129 RESOLVE: Cannot parse IP address:
>> net_gateway
>> Thu Dec  1 13:31:34 2005 us=183788 OpenVPN ROUTE: failed to
>> parse/resolve
>> route for host/network: mlvpn.ornith.cornell.edu
>>
>> And obviously the routes are not in place once the connection completes.
>> This is also the case for similar statements involving the vpn_gateway
>> keyword.  I've also tried specifying the options on the command line and
>> pushing them out from the server; nothing works.  I'm experiencing this
>> issue on clients running OpenVPN 2.0.2 on OS X and OpenVPN 2.0.5 running
>> on Fedora.
>>
>> Am I getting the syntax wrong somehow?  It looks right according to the
>> man page, but I haven't been able to find a working example.  Any advice
>> or working route statements from your own config files would be much
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rafe
>>
>>
>>
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