Re: Reaching connected client machine from the server through the tunnel?
André via Openvpn-users <[email protected]>
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Sorry, forgot cc to users list . . . On Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 at 22:47, André <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I understand correctly the video library is on the Pi? > If so, configure it for connecting to your server. > Make sure IP forwarding is enabled on the VPN server. > Add a route on the server side gateway (probably router) pointing towards the LAN IP of the machine running the VPN server with the tunnel subnet as source. > You can then connect to the Pi using it's tunnel IP from any device on the LAN. > Make sure the firewall on the VPN server allows the traffic. > > Hope I phrased that right...:) > . > . > . > On Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 at 21:57, Bo Berglund [email protected] wrote: > > > I have a Raspberry Pi device which will be deployed to a location with a network > > which does not have a public IP address. > > > > The RPi will be confiugured with openvpn to auto-connect to my VPN server when > > it starts. > > > > The client-to-server connection is used to make available a video library to the > > remote site. > > > > Is there some way when that RPi has connected to my OpenVPN server to reach it > > "backwards" via the connected tunnel? I mean to establish a command line SSH > > interface through the tunnel or similar. > > Either from the server itself from its command line or via the server from other > > devices on the server side network. > > > > This connection if possible would be used to manage the RPi device itself since > > there is noone that can do that locally. > > > > But the lack of public IP makes it impossible to run a server on the client side > > to access the RPi and I guess if done it would create a closed loop kind of > > connection... > > > > Advice on how to configure the client and server for this is gratefully > > appreciated. > > > > TIA > > > > -- > > Bo Berglund > > Developer in Sweden > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openvpn-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users