openvpn - urgent help requested!

[Tony Molloy]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:46:59 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm just about the depart for a week in Italy,
> and have set up openvpn to communicate from there
> with my server at home.
>
> I notice that ifconfig on the server gives
>     inet addr:192.168.5.1  P-t-P:192.168.5.2  Mask:255.255.255.255
> while ifconfig on the client gives
>   inet addr:192.168.5.6  P-t-P:192.168.5.5  Mask:255.255.255.255
> with a different P-t-P address.
>
> Does this matter?
> I see from my notes that when I last carried out this exercise
> the two P-t-P addresses were the same.
> (Unfortunately that was with a different server no longer with us.)
>
> On the previous occasion both server and client were running Fedora.
> Now the server is running Centos-5.3 and the client Fedora-10.
>
> Any enlightenment gratefully received.
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

Is this OpenVPN 2.x

Are you using topology subnet in your server.conf file.


I've just set another server this morning and this is what I have. This is on 
Centos 5.3

openvpn-2.1-0.29.rc15.el5

ifconfig -a
tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 
00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:192.168.166.1  P-t-P:192.168.166.1  Mask:255.255.255.0


Regards,

Tony
-- 

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick.