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http://serverfault.com – I have a windows7 that uses openvpn.I want to connect my win7 to internet through openvpn tunnel.my openvpn server is on ubuntu and i can connect to internet from ubuntu's eth0 with bridging it to host NIC.I googled but no success is achieved. when win7 connected to vpn, an ip address such 10.10.0.2 is assigned to it. i want to do this work such that i can test traffic shaping settings for win7 client. i try with push redirect gateway and some iptables rules but as i mentioned before i did not succeed. please guide me. (HowTos)

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Submitted by grtyyu on 09/22/2012

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I have an OpenVPN server and I can connect to it just fine but I can not communicate with any other hosts on the network including the server. I can't ping from the server to an OpenVPN client, I can't ping from an OpenVPN client to the OpenVPN server, I can't ping from OpenVPN client to OpenVPN client or from OpenVPN client to normal LAN host and vise-versa.

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On my Win 7 client, I can connect to the VPN, but I can't use the internet.

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port 1194 proto udp dev tun ca /tmp/openvpn/ca.crt cert /tmp/openvpn/cert.pem key /tmp/openvpn/key.pem dh /tmp/openvpn/dh.pem server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 push "redirect-gateway local def1" keepalive 10 120 comp-lzo