openvpn - urgent help requested!

[Andrew Parker]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Andrew Parker <gbofspam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
>> Also ping from my laptop gives
>> --------------------------------------------
>> [tim at mary ~]$ ping -c1 192.168.5.1
>> PING 192.168.5.1 (192.168.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> >From 192.168.5.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>> --------------------------------------------
>> I'm not clear why it thinks it is pinging from 192.168.5.1
>> and not 192.168.5.6 .
>
> this is 192.168.5.1 replying with "Destination Host Unreachable",
> which seems really odd as that is its address.
>

This appears to be a firewall issue, I can replicate that error with
"iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type 8 -j REJECT" on my server.