Choosing which interface to use
I am setting up a VPN client on a 6.0 box of mine. As a result of the VPN client (openvpn) running I have two interfaces active, xl0 needed by the dhcp client and tun0 used by the vpn client. The question. How do I tell an application perhaps telnet, ssh, or ftp to use tun0 and not xl0? hal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing which interface to use
hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am setting up a VPN client on a 6.0 box of mine. As a result of the VPN client (openvpn) running I have two interfaces active, xl0 needed by the dhcp client and tun0 used by the vpn client. The question. How do I tell an application perhaps telnet, ssh, or ftp to use tun0 and not xl0? Ideally you would set up appropriate routes when you establish the VPN tunnel, and the kernel would know the correct direction based on the destination IP address. Since this isn't the case, I strongly suggest that you look into cleaning up your IP ranges so it can be. Never allow half-baked routing to exist, it just causes more and more headaches the longer you let it go. However, many programs have an option to control where the source port originates from. If the application you want to use supports this, you can specifiy the IP of your end of the VPN tunnel and it should force the traffic to go through the tunnel. ssh, for example uses -b to set the originating IP. I'll reiterate, however, that the _best_ way is to properly organize your routing so it happes automagically. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing which interface to use
El día Friday, April 07, 2006 a las 08:29:03AM -0600, hal escribió: I am setting up a VPN client on a 6.0 box of mine. As a result of the VPN client (openvpn) running I have two interfaces active, xl0 needed by the dhcp client and tun0 used by the vpn client. The question. How do I tell an application perhaps telnet, ssh, or ftp to use tun0 and not xl0? This is not a question of telling the application to use certain interface, xl0 or tun0. You will direct this application to some remote IP addr and the routing table defines the interface to be used. Have a look at 'netstat -rn' and add more routings if necesary. matthias -- Matthias Apitz / Sisis Informationssysteme GmbH ein Tochterunternehmen der OCLC PICA B.V. Leiden (NL) D-82041 Oberhaching, Gruenwalder Weg 28g Fon: +49 89 / 61308-351, Fax: -399, Mobile +49 170 4527211 http://www.sisis.de/~guru/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
