[Cerowrt-devel] vpn fw question

Joel Wirāmu Pauling joel at aenertia.net
Thu Oct 2 22:33:31 EDT 2014


Somewhat related question. Is anyone successfully using VxLANs in
Toronto release?

On 3 October 2014 15:24, Joel Wirāmu Pauling <joel at aenertia.net> wrote:
> I.e Your topology looks like this :
>
> [(Remote LAN) - VPN Client]---[INTERNET]---(Local LAN)[WAN][LAN][REMOTE-LAN])
>
> Your Local LAN knows nothing about Remote LAN and Vice versa. There is
> just a single Inteface/Client member that is a member of REMOTE-LAN.
> So to get traffic from Local LAN to Remote LAN all Local-LAN traffic
> needs to be masqueraded to that Single interface.
>
>
> -Joel
>
>
>
> On 3 October 2014 14:32, Eric S. Johansson <esj at eggo.org> wrote:
>> I was trying to setup my cerowrt box as an openvpn client. everything seems
>> to be working. The VPN link comes up, tun0 is created. I can access machines
>> on the far end of the link from the AP and vice versa. the openwrt
>> incantation for the vpn says to create an interface called vpn0
>>
>> network.vpn0=interface
>> network.vpn0.proto=none
>> network.vpn0.ifname=tun0
>>
>> ifconfig says  tun0 exists  but no vpn0. fw3 reload says:
>>
>> Warning: Section @zone[1] (lan) cannot resolve device of network 'lan'
>> Warning: Section @zone[2] (guest) cannot resolve device of network 'guest'
>>
>> sometimes it says: Warning: Section @zone[1] (lan) cannot resolve device of
>> network 'vpn0'
>>
>> tcpdump sees the ICMP request at se00 and tun0 but not at the remote target.
>> this leads me to believe that it's probably a firewall problem but I don't
>> know where the logs are.
>>
>> This brings me to one of the problem with had making changes in cerowrt,
>> namely, how the $##$& do you debug this thing? I've had to reflash this box
>> way too many times because I did something that effectively bricked it.
>> right now, I would settle for knowing where to find where logs are put.
>>
>> thanks
>> --- eric
>>
>>
>>
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