Routing to LAN with OpenVPN

[jkemenade]

Hi,

Setup is that router (firmware 1.5.8) is running OpenVPN as server (Clients can only communicate with server; allow clients to access hosts on LAN).
Win7 client is running OpenVPN GUI and the connection has been made.
OpenVPN server runs on 10.8.0.1
Win7 client has ip-address 10.8.0.2
LAN IP is 192.168.5.xx

From Win7 client I can't reach any hosts, but can reach VPN server.:
Tracing route to 192.168.5.2 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.8.0.1
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.

These are the routes defined:

10.8.0.0/255.255.255.0 tun0 * 0
192.168.5.0/255.255.255.0 br-lan (LAN) * 0

Any suggestions how to access the LAN hosts from the OpenVPN client?

[jkemenade]

Problem solved. Was not on OpenVPN but on Win7 host where the pc firewall blocked ping requests from outside the local subnet. Added 10.8.0.0/24 to the allowed list of external IP's and ping worked.

John