[Openswan Users] After connecting to the VPN server client default gateway is client's own IP Address

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Janantha Marasinghe wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. My local IP is currently set to an IP that is
> not in the ip range pool and is not the private IP of the vpn server
> it self.
> In chap-secrets i have it in the following format
>
> username   *   password   *
> *   username   password    *

The last column needs to be the ip of the client, or a cidr notation
of possible ips from a pool that xl2tpd can pick from.

Paul

> Should I change the server '*' to the VPN server's public IP?
>
> Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Janantha Marasinghe wrote:
>>
>>> When I do a ipconfig /all on my Windows XP client why does the default
>>> gateway IP for the PPP interface same as the client IP assigned by the
>>> VPN server? Because of this I have routing issues.
>>> Any help in this is much appreciated.
>>
>> Looks like a misconfiguration on the L2TP server? Check your "local ip"
>> setting in xl2tpd.conf and the assigned ip to your user in
>> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
>>
>> Paul
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