Re: [Openvpn-users] route keywords not substituting

[James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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