Yes, I had enabled the ip_forward I solved it finally it was the
compression on the client was enabled but not on the server. more here:
https://serverfault.com/questions/889115/openvpn-client-connects-but-no-internet-accress-even-though-i-masquerade/889131#889131
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:29 PM Selva Nair <selva.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Medya <medya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed openvpn server at home on centos 7. using digital ocean doc.
> >
> > ip route showed my server's network interface is ens32. so I added a
> rule to
> > iptables to forward routing to OpenVPN subnet
> >
> > iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o ens32 -j MASQUERADE
> >
> > I also have google's DNS in my server config.
> >
> > push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8" push "dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4"
> >
> > and I also configured the server to tell the clients to redirect all
> traffic
> > through the OpenVPN.
> >
> > push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
> >
> > and I am doing this at home internet, so on the router I did port
> forwarding
> > on openvpn's port.
> >
> > on my android phone, the openvpn client app successfully logs in to the
> > server and it gets a private ip (10.8.0.6) and it shows a few KB been
> sent
> > and received, and it is green and happy ! but it can NOT access internet.
> >
> > I have been trying so many different things, I have no idea why it can't
> > access internet.
> >
> > the openvpn server itself I checked by curl google.com that it does have
> > access to internet.
>
> Is ip_forward enabled? Check
>
> # sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
>
> Also check iptables FORWARD chain is not blocking forwarded packets.
>
> Selva
>
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