Bridge issues...
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:24 pm
First I would like to say that so far I LOVE this software, but I have yet to get it working...
I'm trying to bridge the LAN from my main house to my weekend cabin and I've been battling it for a few days now.
The network on the VPN server is setup on IP's 192.168.1.x/24 The Asus-RT66U is at 192.168.1.1 and the VPN server (machine name softether-nwh) is at 192.168.1.2 with everything else on the lan assigned IP's in the 192.168.1.x/24 range from the Asus-RT66U router.
The network at the bridge end at the weekend cabin is setup on IP's 192.168.2.x/24 The Asus-RT66U is at 192.168.2.1 and the bridge (machine name softether-wth) is at 192.168.2.2 with everything else on the lan assigned IP's in the 192.168.2.x/24 range from the Asus-RT66U router.
The VPN server and bridge hardware is a Radxa Rock PRO ARM Cortex-A9 quad core board running Debian "weezy" server with a single 100MB ethernet port. It does have built in wifi, but it's not in use and not configured.
root@softether-nwh:/home/byer# uname -a
Linux softether-nwh 3.0.36+ #14 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 28 19:30:20 CST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
I complied from source (v4.19-4599) and when I ran the "check" in 'vpncmd" all passed.
My main house is running as the VPN server (machine softether-nwh) and my weekend cabin is setup as a bridge (softether-wth).
I followed the setup guide for a "LAN to LAN bridge", the VPN server is setup and running with a bridge to the network NIC. The "bridge" is pointed to the VPN server and has a cascade to the VPN server.
I have disabled the DDNS in the VPN server as each of the Asus RT-AC66U routers are already handling that for me.
The Asus RT-AC66U routers are set to forward ports 55558888, 992, 4500, 500 and 1194 to the VPN server and bridge.
The bridge shows a connection to the VPN server and I can see the session in the VPN server, but if I try to access a machine on the VPN server network from the bridge network, nothing happens, can't connect.
I have enabled "L2TP over IPsec", OpenVPN and MS-SSTP VPN in the VPN server and when I try to connect via OpenVPN from my Android phone I connect, I see the session in the VPN server, I get an IP address assigned via the DHCP server on the Asus RT-AC66U, but again, I can't connect to anything on the network.
It's probably something simple like a routing issue, I've attached the configuration files for the VPN server and the bridge and if anything else is needed to help diagnose what the problem is let me know and I'll supply it as I desperately need to get this going.
Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to bridge the LAN from my main house to my weekend cabin and I've been battling it for a few days now.
The network on the VPN server is setup on IP's 192.168.1.x/24 The Asus-RT66U is at 192.168.1.1 and the VPN server (machine name softether-nwh) is at 192.168.1.2 with everything else on the lan assigned IP's in the 192.168.1.x/24 range from the Asus-RT66U router.
The network at the bridge end at the weekend cabin is setup on IP's 192.168.2.x/24 The Asus-RT66U is at 192.168.2.1 and the bridge (machine name softether-wth) is at 192.168.2.2 with everything else on the lan assigned IP's in the 192.168.2.x/24 range from the Asus-RT66U router.
The VPN server and bridge hardware is a Radxa Rock PRO ARM Cortex-A9 quad core board running Debian "weezy" server with a single 100MB ethernet port. It does have built in wifi, but it's not in use and not configured.
root@softether-nwh:/home/byer# uname -a
Linux softether-nwh 3.0.36+ #14 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 28 19:30:20 CST 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
I complied from source (v4.19-4599) and when I ran the "check" in 'vpncmd" all passed.
My main house is running as the VPN server (machine softether-nwh) and my weekend cabin is setup as a bridge (softether-wth).
I followed the setup guide for a "LAN to LAN bridge", the VPN server is setup and running with a bridge to the network NIC. The "bridge" is pointed to the VPN server and has a cascade to the VPN server.
I have disabled the DDNS in the VPN server as each of the Asus RT-AC66U routers are already handling that for me.
The Asus RT-AC66U routers are set to forward ports 55558888, 992, 4500, 500 and 1194 to the VPN server and bridge.
The bridge shows a connection to the VPN server and I can see the session in the VPN server, but if I try to access a machine on the VPN server network from the bridge network, nothing happens, can't connect.
I have enabled "L2TP over IPsec", OpenVPN and MS-SSTP VPN in the VPN server and when I try to connect via OpenVPN from my Android phone I connect, I see the session in the VPN server, I get an IP address assigned via the DHCP server on the Asus RT-AC66U, but again, I can't connect to anything on the network.
It's probably something simple like a routing issue, I've attached the configuration files for the VPN server and the bridge and if anything else is needed to help diagnose what the problem is let me know and I'll supply it as I desperately need to get this going.
Thanks in advance.