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I have a network of machines inside an OpenVPN network. With no problem, I can connect into that network from my local machine:

openvpn --config ./myconfig.ovpn --auth-user-pass ./mycredentials

The problem is that I am trying to connect another remote machine (a cloud based VPS) as a client. Using the same config file and credentials on the VPS will not work.

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Basically what happens is the machine freezes up. My current shell session stops responding. My only way out of it is to reboot the machine. To make it worse, if I run it as a service (service openvpn start with a config file in /etc/openvpn) I cannot even get back into the machine at all. Even after a reboot.

Maybe the connection is being established and it is cutting off my SSH? I'm really not sure. What I really need to figure out though is how to setup a VPS as a client to my VPN and still be able to control the machine.

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So, after MUCH more work into this ... I discovered that I indeed could get into the machine (albeit not thru SSH). When I turned off the openvpn, I was able to SSH back in as normal. Suspicion confirmed.

Then, the question became: how do I SSH into an OpenVPN client?

I found the answer.

For anyone else having the issue, I am also putting the solution here:

ip rule add from x.x.x.x table 128

ip route add table 128 to y.y.y.y/y dev ethX

ip route add table 128 default via z.z.z.z

Where x.x.x.x is your public IP, y.y.y.y/y should be the subnet of your public IP address, ethX should be your public Ethernet interface, and z.z.z.z should be the default gateway.

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