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RB4011 OpenVPN server - Client no gateway

Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:07 pm

Hello,

I am not new to networking and VPN, but relatively new to RouterOS.
I have a RB4011 for half a year now and have used it as home router, with multiple VLAN's and PPPoE via SFP+ to ISP.
Added OpenVPN server on the RB4011 (created certificates and separate ovpn pool).
With OpenVPN client on Windows notebook I am able to establish connection to public IP-address and the tunnel comes up, after I added
;;; OpenVPN
chain=input action=accept protocol=tcp in-interface=PPPoE-client
dst-port=1194 log=no log-prefix=""
to the firewall.
So far, so good, but from the Windows notebook I cannot reach any IP-address on the other side of the tunnel.
In IPCONFIG on the notebook there is an IP-adress from the ovn pool, but it has no gateway address.
How do I setup this and what rules do I have to add on the firewall to allow connection from ovpn client to internal devices on different networks, e.g network 192.168.10.0/24 and host 192.168.50.30/32?
Is it possible to define the allowed destinations on the RB4011 or do I need to add the internal destinations in the .ovpn configuraion file for the client?

Any help appreciated.
 
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Re: RB4011 OpenVPN server - Client no gateway

Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:24 pm

but it has no gateway address.
You can either:
1. Configure routes on client (`route add..`): https://openvpn.net/community-resources ... p-routing/
2. Push routes from the server, see https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/OpenVPN (`push-routes` and `redirect-gateway`)

With route configured, you might enable forwarding in firewall of NAT (if required) https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Filter
 
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Re: RB4011 OpenVPN server - Client no gateway

Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:43 pm

Thanks for the advices.
After studying the suggested information and a lot of trial and error I discovered that there are two options:
1. Add the local network in the client.ovpn file but without a gateway address, so I added
route 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.255.0 WITHOUT gateway in .ovpn file.
All traffic to the 192.68.2.0/24 network is routed through the VPN tunnel.

2. Remove the route from .ovpn file and change the OVPN server on MikroTik router: Redirect Gateway = def1 (instead of disabled).
All traffic from the client pc is then routed through the VPN tunnel and can be managed by firewall rules on the MikroTik.

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