VPN Traffic issues

[Daniel Garcia]

I added HS_UAMLOGOUTIP=127.0.0.1 to my config file but when I restart coova it is not in the generated main.conf file.

Can you please specify exactly where and how you configured this?

Thanks

Daniel Garcia
IT Assistant Manager
Core Infrastructure & Systems Development
Global Gossip Group
[a]    14 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney, NSW 2010
[t]    +612 9263 0458
[f]    +612 9263 0404
[m]    0400 604 897
[e]    dgarcia at globalgossip.net

-----Original Message-----
From: wlanmac [mailto:wlan at mac.com]
Sent: Monday, 9 March 2009 7:02 PM
To: chilli at coova.org
Subject: Re: VPN Traffic issues

Thanks for the suggestion!

David


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 08:52 +0100, Oliver Hinckel wrote:
> Daniel Garcia wrote on 03/09/2009 01:10 AM:
> [...]
> >> You might want to do a wireshark dump (or tcpdump) of the subscriber's
> >> traffic. Or, run chilli in debug mode to help see what it is doing. The
> >> first question is: can the subscriber surf the walled garden or does
> >> *nothing* work?
> > surf the walled garden? Sorry you lost me. Browsing the internet is fine
> > when subscribers log in correctly. Once logged in and successfully
> > browsing, if they VPN, then browsing stops working. I notice that DNS
> > is working because I see the browser resolving the name URL...it appears
>  > to be something in the iptables is preventing it
>
> We had same problems with surfen when VPN was activated. The problem
> was, that the VPN software (doesn't remember which VPN software and type
> of VPN was used) tries to contact IP address 1.1.1.1 which is the
> default value for the "uamlogoutip" settings:
>
>    http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaChilli/chilli.conf(5)
>
> So if the customer starts his VPN the software contacted the IP address
> 1.1.1.1 (or tries at least to contact) and chilli logged them out. The
> customer wasn't able to surf the web anymore.
>
> To solve this problem, we changed the "uamlogoutip" value to 127.0.0.1
> since we don't need this configuration with logging out by contacting a
> specific IP address.
>
> HTH
>
> - Olli
>
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