I posted this on OpenVPN but I notice quite a lot of tunnel-related stuff here too.
I have set up an OpenVPN system (using a LEAF Firewall on a WRAP Platform) and have been testing this with Windows XP clients, using the GUI from Mathias Sundman. As the clients connect over Wi-Fi, their DHCP leases are quite short (1 hour). To allow more testing, I started using XP clients under VMWare (version 4.5.1) and noticed that they lose connectivity after 1 hour of operation. On examination, I found that the DHCP lease update occurring on the physical network was resetting the default gateway back to the value of the physical router and removing the default gateway set up over OpenVPN with the directive 'push "redirect gateway"'. A reconnection of the VPN client fixes this. Curiously it does not seem to happen to the host computer (also XP) running the VMWare clients - this machine reports 2 default gateways, one for the physical NIC and one for the VPN tunnel (only MS could have 2 'defaults'), but anyway it works. It seems the VMWare NIC software is changing the way that DHCP is affecting the routing table. I remember having seen reports of similar ocurrences in this list, which is why I am posting, I hope it helps. Regards, Bob von Knobloch ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
