Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm just about the depart for a week in Italy, > and have set up openvpn to communicate from there > with my server at home. > > I notice that ifconfig on the server gives > inet addr:192.168.5.1 P-t-P:192.168.5.2 Mask:255.255.255.255 > while ifconfig on the client gives > inet addr:192.168.5.6 P-t-P:192.168.5.5 Mask:255.255.255.255 > with a different P-t-P address. > > Does this matter? > I see from my notes that when I last carried out this exercise > the two P-t-P addresses were the same. > (Unfortunately that was with a different server no longer with us.) > > On the previous occasion both server and client were running Fedora. > Now the server is running Centos-5.3 and the client Fedora-10. > > Any enlightenment gratefully received. Just to follow up on myself - I'm in Italy now, and everything works fine _except_ VPN. I can ssh into my home server, get IMAP email from it, and generally interact with it as I do at home, If I ssh into my home server, ifconfig gives: -------------------------------------------- tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.5.1 P-t-P:192.168.5.2 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:756 (756.0 b) TX bytes:1008 (1008.0 b) -------------------------------------------- while ifconfig on my laptop gives -------------------------------------------- tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:192.168.5.6 P-t-P:192.168.5.5 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:336 (336.0 b) TX bytes:252 (252.0 b) -------------------------------------------- As I point out, the P-t-P addresses are different - I don't know if that is significant. Also ping from my laptop gives -------------------------------------------- [tim@mary ~]$ ping -c1 192.168.5.1 PING 192.168.5.1 (192.168.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.5.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable -------------------------------------------- I'm not clear why it thinks it is pinging from 192.168.5.1 and not 192.168.5.6 . Ping from the server gives -------------------------------------------- [tim@mary ~]$ ping -c1 192.168.5.1 PING 192.168.5.1 (192.168.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.5.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable -------------------------------------------- I guess I have not set openvpn up correctly on my laptop ...? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines