Comments on: HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN

By: Magnus Wedberg

Magnus Wedberg — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:30:08 +0000

everyone has the same problem :-) For OpenVPN that seems to stop at the router, add

iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i tap+ -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i tap+ -j ACCEPT

to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or rc.firewall.local, or another start script of choice.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:45:29 +0000

They glossed over the advanced server options button on the openvpn page. On this page is options to push down information to the VPN client such as domain and dns information.

When I first set this up, I thought I couldn’t get out to the internet. After troubleshooting, I saw that I could get pages via IP but not by name. I added IPCOPs internal address to this page and restarted the server, and my internet access is back :-)

By: Mirko

Mirko — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:39:44 +0000

Hi all,
I have the same problem that Dan had on 17 March 2008 at 12:47 pm.
From the vpn client I can reach ipcop but not any lan host.
For example I can reach the server that has the address 10.7.0.1 but not an internal host with address push 192.168.0.1.
The GREEN address of ipcop is 192.168.0.253/255.255.255.0.
I tried to add “route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0″ at /var/ipcop/ovpn/server.conf but I have the same problem.
Did somebody solved it?

By: Danur

Danur — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:29:57 +0000

I’ve installed IPCop 1.4.21 and Zerina OpenVPN, I create Roadwarrior Client and can connect but can’t recognize the server behind the Green interface, and also I make a Net-to-Net but can’t connect each other, can anyone please give suggestions for troubleshooting, thank you.

By: Pieter

Pieter — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:13:11 +0000

I want to install a new IPCOP box with Open VPN in our network-. We have a Cisco 877W ADSL router with NAT enabled. The ISP does not allow us to change or even look at the settings. Now obviously double natting will be performed.
To get the RoadWarrior VPN going, will the solution be as simple just op open port 1194 on the Cisco router and disabling NAT? How will the Red interface be configured, with the private or public IP address?

By: Bender-420

Bender-420 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:56:51 +0000

I am new with the vpn thing, but the instructions here, and the Zerina site were great… till I got to the last step

I get to the last steps and am able to connect the client to the vpn server, but I am not able to see anyting but the virtual subnet that openVPN created.

I dont know if there is a line of code missing in the most rescent version, but there is no NAT or PROXY options available in the GUI.

I have tried appending rules within iptables, but nothing I do seems to make it able to see the Green network.

Any ideas? I am starting to pull my hair out.

Bender

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:35:55 +0000

Have anyone tried to get openvpn work with smoothwall? Is it the same?

By: nishad

nishad — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:11:07 +0000

add routes to the servers as the green interface of IPCop as it’s gateway. It’ll work.

By: dippy

dippy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:59:33 +0000

How do you uncomment the version check??

By: sippy

sippy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:47:14 +0000

That is, unless you uncomment the version check. Then it works perfectly!