# Rancher across VPN **URL:** \ **Category:** Rancher 1.x\ **Created:** [May 31, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968 "2016-05-31T08:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjrp78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jjrp78](https://forums.suse.com/u/jjrp78)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2016, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968/1 "2016-05-31T08:00:08Z")
Hi all. Im in the need for some help. I and deploying rancher on AWS. the rancher server is in the region eu-1a. It is in a private subnet i.e. does not have a public ip. The vpc where my server is hosted is joined to a second VPC in the region us-east-1. (VPC is openswan) Adding a host on the same subnet than the server works fine. But adding a host on the other VPC (us-east-1) doesnt. I have checked already and all networking seems to be working fine. I can ping servers across regions, security groups have all tcp and udp ports open, from the host Im trying to add I can curl the rancher server but it just wont work. Manually adding a host looks like this: INFO: Running Agent Registration Process, CATTLE\_URL=http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1 INFO: Checking for Docker version \>= 1.6.0 INFO: Found Server version: 1.9.1 INFO: docker version: Client version: 1.6.0 INFO: docker version: Client API version: 1.18 INFO: docker version: Go version (client): go1.4.2 INFO: docker version: Git commit (client): 4749651 INFO: docker version: OS/Arch (client): linux/amd64 INFO: docker version: Server version: 1.9.1 INFO: docker version: Server API version: 1.21 INFO: docker version: Go version (server): go1.4.2 INFO: docker version: Git commit (server): a34a1d5/1.9.1 INFO: docker version: OS/Arch (server): linux/amd64 INFO: docker info: Containers: 5 INFO: docker info: Images: 15 INFO: docker info: Storage Driver: devicemapper INFO: docker info: Pool Name: docker-202:1-263649-pool INFO: docker info: Pool Blocksize: 65.54 kB INFO: docker info: Base Device Size: 107.4 GB INFO: docker info: Backing Filesystem: xfs INFO: docker info: Data file: /dev/loop0 INFO: docker info: Metadata file: /dev/loop1 INFO: docker info: Data Space Used: 895.8 MB INFO: docker info: Data Space Total: 107.4 GB INFO: docker info: Data Space Available: 14.57 GB INFO: docker info: Metadata Space Used: 1.81 MB INFO: docker info: Metadata Space Total: 2.147 GB INFO: docker info: Metadata Space Available: 2.146 GB INFO: docker info: Udev Sync Supported: true INFO: docker info: Deferred Removal Enabled: false INFO: docker info: Deferred Deletion Enabled: false INFO: docker info: Deferred Deleted Device Count: 0 INFO: docker info: Data loop file: /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data INFO: docker info: Metadata loop file: /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/metadata INFO: docker info: Library Version: 1.02.93-RHEL7 (2015-01-28) INFO: docker info: Execution Driver: native-0.2 INFO: docker info: Kernel Version: 4.4.8-20.46.amzn1.x86\_64 INFO: docker info: Operating System: Amazon Linux AMI 2016.03 INFO: docker info: CPUs: 1 INFO: docker info: Total Memory: 995.4 MiB INFO: docker info: Name: ip-172-31-71-202 INFO: docker info: ID: 4UKJ:3RA4:XHJW:74UL:YM6E:ZCEY:X7SC:HZ6X:7ZR3:LFRP:Y2G3:RPHX INFO: docker info: Http Proxy: INFO: docker info: Https Proxy: INFO: docker info: No Proxy: INFO: Attempting to connect to: [http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1](http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1) INFO: [http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1](http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1) is accessible INFO: Inspecting host capabilities INFO: System: false INFO: Host writable: true INFO: Token: xxxxxxxx INFO: Running registration INFO: Printing Environment INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_ACCESS\_KEY=4B737B9B1033E847C54F INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_AGENT\_IP=172.31.4.224 INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_HOME=/var/lib/cattle INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_REGISTRATION\_ACCESS\_KEY=registrationToken INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_REGISTRATION\_SECRET\_KEY=xxxxxxx INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_SECRET\_KEY=xxxxxxx INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_SYSTEMD=false INFO: ENV: CATTLE\_URL=http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080/v1 INFO: ENV: DETECTED\_CATTLE\_AGENT\_IP=172.31.4.224 INFO: ENV: RANCHER\_AGENT\_IMAGE=rancher/agent:v1.0.1 INFO: Deleting container rancher-agent INFO: Launched Rancher Agent: b21e202dc538b67c2cebdf8156860c46162c1c9d0710163521896d766097ee0a and then it never shows up in the rancher hosts. If added through the AWS API it gets stuck copying the certificates. Any ideas of how to trouble shoot? ---
**Author:** ![leodotcloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/leodotcloud/32/3103_2.png) [@leodotcloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/leodotcloud)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:15am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968/2 "2016-06-02T06:15:20Z")
Some of the things to check: - Can you SSH from the host to [rancher01.amersportsdigital.com](http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com)? - Are the ports opened in both the Security groups? server and host? - Can you do curl [http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080](http://rancher01.amersportsdigital.com:8080) on the host? ---
**Author:** ![jjrp78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jjrp78](https://forums.suse.com/u/jjrp78)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968/3 "2016-06-02T06:38:58Z")
yes all of those are doable very strange issue. I ended up taking down the rancher server and creating it again, same security groups and it just worked. I guess we’ll never know But thanks for the help ! ---
**Author:** ![leodotcloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/leodotcloud/32/3103_2.png) [@leodotcloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/leodotcloud)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968/4 "2016-06-02T18:23:32Z")
Glad it worked. Let us know if you see any issue in future. ---
**Author:** ![leodotcloud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/leodotcloud/32/3103_2.png) [@leodotcloud](https://forums.suse.com/u/leodotcloud)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-across-vpn/2968/5 "2016-06-02T18:23:36Z")