Is it possible to access the host of a VM through VPN running on the VM?
I have an Ubuntu server running virtual machines with KVM, it has the internal IP 192.168.3.101.
I have not touched the default iptables configs on the host. The VMs use MacVTap to connect to the network.
On one virtual machine, with IP 192.168.3.108, I have installed OpenVPN. My goal is to access all machines and virtual machines from that network from outside.
On the VPN server I made sure that connections fake the local IP of the VM, by setting the POSTROUTING rule:
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 10.8.0.0/16 anywhere
So far, my setup works well now, for one exception: I cannot access the host of the VPN server that has IP 192.168.3.101. For all attempts I get "network unreachable" and no response.
I assume that this has to be some kind of issue with the routing on the host of the VMs itself?
networking server vpn iptables openvpn
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
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I have an Ubuntu server running virtual machines with KVM, it has the internal IP 192.168.3.101.
I have not touched the default iptables configs on the host. The VMs use MacVTap to connect to the network.
On one virtual machine, with IP 192.168.3.108, I have installed OpenVPN. My goal is to access all machines and virtual machines from that network from outside.
On the VPN server I made sure that connections fake the local IP of the VM, by setting the POSTROUTING rule:
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 10.8.0.0/16 anywhere
So far, my setup works well now, for one exception: I cannot access the host of the VPN server that has IP 192.168.3.101. For all attempts I get "network unreachable" and no response.
I assume that this has to be some kind of issue with the routing on the host of the VMs itself?
networking server vpn iptables openvpn
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except192.168.3.101. The101machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking
– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28
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I have an Ubuntu server running virtual machines with KVM, it has the internal IP 192.168.3.101.
I have not touched the default iptables configs on the host. The VMs use MacVTap to connect to the network.
On one virtual machine, with IP 192.168.3.108, I have installed OpenVPN. My goal is to access all machines and virtual machines from that network from outside.
On the VPN server I made sure that connections fake the local IP of the VM, by setting the POSTROUTING rule:
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 10.8.0.0/16 anywhere
So far, my setup works well now, for one exception: I cannot access the host of the VPN server that has IP 192.168.3.101. For all attempts I get "network unreachable" and no response.
I assume that this has to be some kind of issue with the routing on the host of the VMs itself?
networking server vpn iptables openvpn
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
I have an Ubuntu server running virtual machines with KVM, it has the internal IP 192.168.3.101.
I have not touched the default iptables configs on the host. The VMs use MacVTap to connect to the network.
On one virtual machine, with IP 192.168.3.108, I have installed OpenVPN. My goal is to access all machines and virtual machines from that network from outside.
On the VPN server I made sure that connections fake the local IP of the VM, by setting the POSTROUTING rule:
Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
MASQUERADE all -- 10.8.0.0/16 anywhere
So far, my setup works well now, for one exception: I cannot access the host of the VPN server that has IP 192.168.3.101. For all attempts I get "network unreachable" and no response.
I assume that this has to be some kind of issue with the routing on the host of the VMs itself?
networking server vpn iptables openvpn
networking server vpn iptables openvpn
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
asked Jan 27 at 16:48
andreasandreas
1012
1012
If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except192.168.3.101. The101machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking
– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28
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If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except192.168.3.101. The101machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking
– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28
If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at
192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except 192.168.3.101. The 101 machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28
If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at
192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except 192.168.3.101. The 101 machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28
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If i did understand u correct: You have a VPN-Server running at
192.168.3.108. You can conncet to it using vpn. When connected you can use the tunnel to create connections to the other machines too except192.168.3.101. The101machine is the host of all these VM's. If that's the case, i expect it to be a network issue that belongs to your kvm/network setup and is not openvpn related. I don't know how you need to setup MacVTap to work properly but the solution is in the MacVTap documentation for sure. Otherwise you could try using the public bridge method: linux-kvm.org/page/Networking– AlexOnLinux
Feb 10 at 15:28