Hi,

this might help:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/HowPacketsFlow
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/AvoidRoutingConflicts



Pippin




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Op vrijdag 19 november 2021 om 15:53 schreef lejeczek via Openvpn-users 
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> On 19/11/2021 13:57, Gert Doering wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 01:52:20PM +0000, lejeczek via Openvpn-users wrote:
> >
> > > > unset client-to-client in the openvpn config, make sure "a given client"
> > > >
> > > > has a known IP address (ifconfig-push in ccd/), then do the filtering
> > > >
> > > > by iptables on the linux side.
> > > >
> > > > How can it be determined what ovpn does exactly to/with
> > > >
> > > > nftables?
> > > >
> > > > That is easy: nothing. If you want something done in iptables/nftables,
> > > >
> > > > you need to set it up whatever you want it.
> >
> > > On most recent CentOS Stream 8 where firewalld is the tool
> > >
> > > to manage it, with 'direct' rules I fail to make it work - I
> > >
> > > keep making them looser increasingly but with NO
> > >
> > > 'client-to-clien' I'm unable to have clients talk one to
> > >
> > > another.
> > >
> > > Try disabling all firewalling first. If client-to-client then still does
> > >
> > > not work, the problem is somewhere else (like, ip_forwarding not enabled).
> >
> > If it works without firewalling, try with permissive rules that only log
> >
> > stuff first, so you can see "this rule would have matched".
> >
> > gert
>
> client-to-client works. I did disable it as per your
>
> suggestion to "unset" and am trying to work it out through
>
> rules which would allow.
>
> But similarly enabled 'client-to-client' also seems to
>
> escape my rules to drop.
>
> What I am hoping for is some docs on the 'magic' bits
>
> 'client-to-client' do in nftables, if any.
>
> thanks, L.
>
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