[Openswan Users] Cannot access internet and external ressources through vpn.

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, John wrote:

> I've just installed Openswan on my server following this tutorial:
>
> http://riobard.com/blog/2010-04-30-l2tp-over-ipsec-ubuntu/
>
> Actually clients can connect to the server with the VPN, they can ping each
> others on the virtual network, ping the server and the gateway that is in the
> server's network.
>
> The problem is that my clients can't access internet and other external
> ressources outside the server local network.

If you assign private space address to l2tp clients, somewhere on your server
network that needs to get NATed to public ip.

Paul

> The network topology is the following:
>
> Clients === Router === INTERNER === Router === Server
>
> I hope someone can help me diagnose and solve this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
>
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