I've installed an OpenVPN server (server-bridge) on Fedora 20, but I cannot get it to work. I'm almost sure that It's a firewall issue.
I'm trying to connect from an OSX client, but I can connect (just connect to VPN server, without access to anything) before the bridge is configured in server, however once I configure the bridge interface (using this script), then I cannot connect anymore. I've configured it as server-bridge, following these HOW-TOs from Fedora and OpenVPN Ethernet-Bridge.
The firewall config is explained using iptables:
iptables -A INPUT -i tap0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT
However, in Fedora 20, by default, It's installed firewalld, so, Can anyone tell me the equivalent commands using firewall-cmd ? I read the firewalld guide, but It's not clear to me how to achieve it (I'm a developer, no SysAdmin).
I know that I can install iptables, but I want it to work with firewalld.
UPDATE: After some reading on firewall-cmd man page, I tried to apply the previous commands using --passthroughoption, that is:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --passthrough ipv4 -A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --passthrough ipv4 -A INPUT -i br0 -j ACCEPT
# firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --passthrough ipv4 -A FORWARD -i br0 -j ACCEPT
The commands are successfully executed, but It doesn't work, I also tried to use eb instead of ipv4 with the same result.
The ifconfig output is something like:
br0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.40 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::c9:aff:fe02:d953 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 02:c9:09:02:d9:53 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 11276 bytes 1374285 (1.3 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 899 bytes 240110 (234.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
eth0: flags=4419<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::c9:afa:fe02:d953 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 03:c9:0a:02:d9:53 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 13548 bytes 1942379 (1.8 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1162 bytes 269258 (262.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 117 base 0xc000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 6883 bytes 2061608 (1.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 6883 bytes 2061608 (1.9 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
p2p0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::9831:16ff:fe81:3658 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 9a:3b:16:84:36:58 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
tap0: flags=4355<UP,BROADCAST,PROMISC,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether d6:6c:20:12:f3:b6 txqueuelen 100 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.41 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 0.0.0.0
inet6 fe80::9a5b:16ff:fe81:3658 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 98:3b:11:81:36:58 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2643 bytes 230523 (225.1 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 5512 bytes 1726039 (1.6 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Best Answer
firewalld has some services already pre-configured which can be seen with:
(Configuration file /usr/lib/firewalld/services/openvpn.xml)
If you see openvpn as already available service you can enable it with: