[vpn-help] Can't Reach Intranet as Shrew doesn't add a route for the VPN Server

Kevin VPN kvpn at live.com
Mon Jan 21 22:00:24 CST 2013


On 12/25/2012 01:56 AM, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using self compiled Shrew 2.2.RC2 in Ubuntu 12.10.
> The VPN connects fine, but no traffic passes through it and then the
> "failed" count starts to increase.
> rp_filter is set 0 for all interfaces.
>
> I've analysed the problem and found that,
> - once shrew connects, it sets up a default route through the VPN. This is
> OK and needed.
> - however, it does not set a specific route to the vpn host through the lan
> gateway
> - as a result, the vpn encapsulated packets don't know how to reach the vpn
> host and all traffic gets blocked
>
> I hope I could explain it. Once I set up a manual route to the vpn server
> through my local router, it starts to work perfectly.
>
> Is this a bug or do I miss something?
>
> PS. This does not happen on Windows.
>

I wrote in your other thread that I thought there was already code to do 
this in the 2.1.x code stream.  I'm guessing this might be a regression bug.



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