Setting Up a Secondary Network Interface on an Access Server Hyper-V VM

Learn how to add a secondary network interface for your virtual machine running OpenVPN Access Server.

In this tutorial

This tutorial provides you with step-by-step instructions for adding a secondary network interface to your Hyper-V virtual machine running OpenVPN Access Server. The steps below outline what’s covered for you in the tutorial.

Set up secondary network interface:

1. Shut down the OpenVPN Access Server virtual machine.
2. Click Settings > Add Network Adapter.
3. Configure the connection to the secondary network.
4. Start the virtual machine.
5. Login to the virtual machine.
6. Edit the net configuration file in the netplan directory to add ethernet 1.
7. Save the file and run netplan apply.
8. Test the connection by pinging another machine on the secondary network.
9. Restart OpenVPN Access Server.