routing traffic over vpn

[phill15]

Hi i've just created a vpn using ppp over ssh, i can ping the vpn server from client and vice versa but what i want to do is be able to route my client internet traffic over the vpn, currently its using the default local network gateway

[papahuhn]

You need to set a host route to the other end of the vpn tunnel (the address which was given to ssh), remove the current default route and set a new default route via the ppp interface of the tunnel.
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[phill15]

hey thanks for the reply i've tried doing that but it doesn't work for some reason (probably because im doing it wrong), im doing what you said like first i did route add -host <server ip> eth0 and then i did route add default gw <vpn server ip> ppp0, but nothing happened, what actually happened was i couldn't communicate anymore on my network and the internet.

[phill15]

btw will i have to ip masqeurade on the vpn server?

[phill15]

its ok i figured it out

[phill15]

actually i've still got a problem, i can route certain traffic through the vpn link by doing route add google.com gw <vpn ip> ppp0, what this is saying is route all going to google.com to the vpn ip, but i can't figure out a way to route all traffic through the vpn

[phill15]

its ok now i've finally got it all working

[papahuhn]

[sirlark]

Hi phil15,

I'm stuck basically where you were at first posting. Could you please post your solution. I've found that if I remove the default route, then my ssh/ppp tunnel goes down, because there's no route for the ssh connection over the 'normal' network link.

Thanks
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