<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks for the reply Tobias. Much appreciated. Just a final dumb question. Is the VPN tunnel complete without the private IP of the VPN server?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Thanks</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 1:39 PM Tobias Brunner <<a href="mailto:tobias@strongswan.org">tobias@strongswan.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Moses,<br>
<br>
> One question, I would like to ask is, how come<br>
> the VPN server never gets assigned a private IP?<br>
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Just assign one yourself if you think that's necessary.<br>
<br>
> What can I ping on the server from the client apart from the server's<br>
> public IP that can be used to ascertain the VPN connection?<br>
<br>
Nothing if you don't add an additional address yourself.<br>
<br>
Also refer to [1] regarding forwarding traffic from the clients.  And<br>
make sure you set up appropriate firewall rules.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Tobias<br>
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[1]<br>
<a href="https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/ForwardingAndSplitTunneling" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/ForwardingAndSplitTunneling</a><br>
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