Re: Share VPN connection

[François Fayard <fayard.internet@gmail.com>]

On Nov 30, 2013, at 20:59 , Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> wrote:

> [snipped the ifconfig listing when VPN is up]
> 
> Might the default route need to point to the VPN, instead of the physical eth0 IP address?  I'm not expert on VPNs at all, but I have encountered routing problems in LANs with multiple uplinks and gateways, which might be somewhat similar to this situation.
> 
> What does
> # route
> say when the VPN is up?
> 
> Just a thought; I may be off the track here, but could be worth a check.
> 
> regards, Ron

Thanks for your help Ron. Without the VPN, route gives :

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         livebox.home    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1
10.42.0.0       *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1

With the VPN, route gives :

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         *               0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
10.42.0.0       *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
strong-mf35.rel 192.168.1.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 eth1
strong-mf35.rel 192.168.1.1     255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0 eth1
129.189.255.173 *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1

Francois