On 7/30/2011 5:01 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>
>> This thread on OpenVPN has made me wonder if I have this setup correctly.
>> (I'm not exactly a shorewall-noobie,
>> but I find much of the shorewall talk difficult to follow.)
>>
>> I have a VPN zone:
>> ----------------------------------
>> vpn     ipv4
>> ----------------------------------
>> and a VPN interface
>> ----------------------------------
>> vpn     tun0    detect
>> ----------------------------------
>> and the following VPN rules
>> ----------------------------------
>> ACCEPT         vpn             loc              udp     1194 # OpenVPN
>> ACCEPT         loc              vpn             udp     1194 # OpenVPN
>> ACCEPT         vpn             $FW            udp     1194 # OpenVPN
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> This seems to work OK.
>> But is it the correct/best way to set it up?
>>
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you are asking but did you read this?
>
> http://www.shorewall.net/OPENVPN.html
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Got Input?   Slashdot Needs You.
> Take our quick survey online.  Come on, we don't ask for help often.
> Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek.
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey
> _______________________________________________
> Shorewall-users mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

I was going to ask about this too, but thought it might have not been 
the best timing  ;).  Right now we have 40 or 50 different places 
running openVPN, some of them where they are bridges over the internet 
to connect multiple networks together, others are just for client 
connectivity to their office network.

Basically forever we have been doing it exactly as you described above. 
  Where I didn't put anything in tunnels at all (like the documentation 
says) but just used the rules instead (like how you have been doing it) 
  Recently I upgraded to the latest version of shorewall and all routing 
between the the networks completely died, whether it was to networks not 
being able to talk together or the client connecting in and 
communicating with the servers in their office.

So, I looked at the documentation, added the lines needed in tunnels, 
completly removed the rule to open up the vpn port (1194) and everything 
now works perfectly.  The version I was on was 
shorewall-4.4.0-3.noarch.rpm which worked with the rules.  The version 
that i had to create the info in tunnels (according to the 
documentation) when upgrading was shorewall-4.4.21-1.el5.noarch.rpm.

That 4.4.0-3 was from 2009 i believe. I know a lot has changed since then.

Thanks to all for contributing and thanks for such a great thing that 
has been created.

Rj



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Got Input?   Slashdot Needs You.
Take our quick survey online.  Come on, we don't ask for help often.
Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey
_______________________________________________
Shorewall-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

Reply via email to