Re: VPN routing on Sid
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Luis Finotti a écrit :
>>
>> When I first started using the VPN service, I could not SSH to my
>> desktop from outside the network anymore. After a lot of googling, I
>> found out a solution (https://forums.openvpn.net/topic7163-15.htm):
>> I've added the following script to /etc/network/if-up.d:
>>
>> --------------
>> !/bin/bash
>>
>> ip rule add from 192.168.29.120 table 10
>> ip route add default via 192.168.29.1 table 10
>> ----------------
>>
>> where 192.168.29.120 is the IP of the desktop and 192.168.29.1 is the
>> IP of the router.
>>
>> recently, when I run the script above (as I've been doing for a
>> while), I can still connect from *outside* my network, but *not* from
>> inside (i.e., other computers connected to the same router). From
>> within the network, nothing works (SSH, Samba, minidlna...).
>
> Apparently your router is doing a bad job, not forwarding packets from
> LAN to LAN. Anyway, it is better to add an exception to the default
> route for the LAN subnet in table 10 to make the routing direct :
>
> ip route add 192.168.29.0/24 dev eth0 table 10
>
> (If required, replace "eth0" with whatever the LAN interface is.)
Ah, that worked! Could you explain the "192.168.29.0/24" syntax
though? I'm having a hard time finding what it means. (Is it a range
0 to 24?)
I wonder how the problem started as I've made no changes in the router
configuration...
Thanks for the help. I greatly appreciate it!
Luis
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