route to openvpn

    pyed | I set up my server, and now I'm connected, but I couldn't get the routing part right
catphish | i'm not overly familiar with the "route" command, but something like this for a tun interface: route add -host 78.24.191.177 dev tun0
    pyed | catphish, after adding this route, I can't open the routed address anymore
    pyed | can't even ping the routed address
catphish | pyed: that's not very surprising
catphish | pyed: there are loads of reasons why pakets wouldnt come back to you
catphish | the solution is more complicated and depends on whether you have public IPs or NAT, and whether you have set up correct reserve routes and NAT rules at the openvpn serverable
catphish | assuming your openvpn uses a private IP range, you're sending a ping with a private source address
catphish | the openvpn server can respond to that private address, so that's ok
catphish | but to send that ping out to th internet, it will likely need to NAT it
    pyed | hmm
catphish | which it may not be configured to do for vpn traffic
    pyed | I'll take another look at my server config
catphish | openvpn doesn't imply any kind of network setup
    pyed | catphish, could you take a look at this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVPN#Routing_traffic_through_the_server
catphish | is the server running on openwrt?
    pyed | no, it's running on arch
    pyed | archlinux
catphish | this is the important part:
catphish | iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o enp1s0 -j MASQUERADE
catphish | you need a rule that NATs from your VPN range to your WAN interface
catphish | if you've done that, it should work
catphish | also, you need to ensure ip forwarding is enabled
    pyed | it's working !!
    pyed | thank you so much
catphish | cool :)
catphish | what was the problem?
    pyed | all I had to do is 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward'
    pyed | and do the iptables command, but I changed the 'enp1s0' to 'eth0' because that's my interface name
    pyed | now I just 'route add -host IP_ADDRESS dev tun0' on openwrt, and it's working as expected