Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:52:22AM -0800, Mike Morris wrote: > This is probably too basic to be easily found with my searches :^) > > Before installing ovpn community edition as a server, I want to > understand what side effects there are. For instance, running ovpn as a > client, by default, means all outbound triaffic is routed through the > vpn tunnel... even sshd responses. Is the same thing true in server mode? > > I want to have a VPN service, and still retain the webserver and ssh > daemon "as is" on that machine. I just want to know whether I need to > figure out how to alter ip tables, etc. to do that, or should that be > default behavior?
The VPN *server* will, by default, only tunnel the subnet towards the
client that is designated for doing so ("--server $network $mask"), and
send the rest towards its default route.
gert
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