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R6220 - Static Routes issues
I have established a VPN-tunnel (OpenVPN tun) to our summer house for LAN to LAN communication (two subnets). A static route is needed in the routers in both ends for the router to understand how to ...
> Outgoing routing is working fine but response to incoming traffic is
> not routed back. You would expect the router to redirect the traffic in
> accordance with the static route (or in worst case route it to the
> VPN-tunnel). [...]
I would? Every static route I've ever seen has a destination, not a
source. It's a one-way instruction. I'd expect routing in the other
direction to be the responsibility of the fellow at the other end.
Of course, with my weak psychic powers, I can't see any of your
addresses or routes, so what do I know?
> My personal advise is to select another router if you need static
> routes.
Might be good advice. Your "Issue 1" suggests that. I don't know
what "Issue 2" is supposed to tell me.
antinode wrote:> Outgoing routing is working fine but response to incoming traffic is
> not routed back. You would expect the router to redirect the traffic in
> accordance with the static route (or in worst case route it to the
> VPN-tunnel). [...]I would? Every static route I've ever seen has a destination, not a
source. It's a one-way instruction. I'd expect routing in the other
direction to be the responsibility of the fellow at the other end.Of course, with my weak psychic powers, I can't see any of your
addresses or routes, so what do I know?> My personal advise is to select another router if you need static
> routes.Might be good advice. Your "Issue 1" suggests that. I don't know
what "Issue 2" is supposed to tell me.The other end is behaving as expected. The response to incomming traffic need the static route for the response to find its way back. The router is responsible for a redirect or routing based on the configured static route. Wireshark tells me that the response are sent to the routers MAC address but no redirect is sent from the router nor is the packet routed to the VPN-tunnel.