I was thinking that this might be the way to go, but had some practical considerations.
Seeing as I am running this at home, how does one test vpn access when you already have a server as gateway and server. I can think of how it might be done but am easily confused and the practical knowledge eludes me. I searched this site for any posts or how to's but couldnt find any.
imcintyre
If you have a test machine you can:
- perform a fresh install of SME7 in server-only mode
- give it a fixed IP on you local network, for example 192.168.1.50
- install the contrib smeserver-openvpn-bridge_beta5 on it
- configure it as you want, you can let the default port 1194 or choose another
- disable openvpn-server-bridge on your server&gateway
- redirect a port on the server&gateway server: port 1194, proto UDP, destination host 192.168.1.50
Now your server-only host is rechable on port 1194 for proto UDP and you can test the contrib.
As crazybob told you, if you have an emty certificate, you must erease all the certificate and regenerate them. I know you already try this but if you have an empty certificate, you had a problem with the generation.
For your server certificate, a default one should configured with the common-name server-bridge. You can generate a new one if you want but it shouldn't be necessary.
When all the certificates are generated, can you post the result of
ll /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/keys/server-bridge
you should see all the certificates, the dh file, the crl, the ta.key and the client cert if you have generate one. None of this file should be empty.
If you still have an empty file, please mail me your /var/log/httpd/admin_error_log file.
Cheers, Daniel