OpenVPN and bridge mode tunnels - Wiki'fied.

seratne · 2004-09-29 21:33:19

After spending the last couple of days messing around with OpenVPN to work in bridge mode, I've made a wiki to help other people.

I assigned a couple of variables in /etc/rc.conf - I hope that's not against the Arch way of doing stuff. And I could use some help on my /etc/rc.d/openvpn to make it more elegant (see my note in the wiki)

Let me know if it works or doesn't work for anyone else.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVpnBridge

Bzillins8906 · 2004-12-16 01:31:30

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
I get permission errors when i run those.... :shock: Any clue why?

Xentac · 2004-12-16 06:38:44

Specifically network device variables aren't really a big deal in rc.conf, that's where they're supposed to go. If there were any specific openvpn variables, they probably should have gone into /etc/conf.d/openvpn.

cactus · 2004-12-16 07:18:37

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVpnBridge

The wiki.archlinux.org/blah just redirects to wiki2.archlinux.org now.

Any chance of working up a good host to host vpn how to? I have been looking at different tunneling stuff lately, becuase I want to tunnel XDMCP. XDMCP uses UDP, so I cannot use stunned (SSL) or ssh port forwarding (SSH). Both SSL and SSH are TCP only. :?
So, it looks like I am down to some type of vpn. I have started looking at ipsec, but haven't gotten very far yet..

I did find something interesting called "Zebedee".
http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/

That might be enough for my needs.

lanrat · 2004-12-16 10:40:41

There are other similar projects:
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~lennox/udptunnel/
http://vtun.sourceforge.net
though I've never tried them...

And about vpn docs did you check these webpages?
http://www.linux-sec.net/VPN/
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linu … -linux.htm
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_OpenVPN_primer

EDIT: BTW vpn bridge wiki page is here:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenVpnBridge

cactus · 2004-12-16 10:46:12

oooh cool.
tnx lanrat. I will check those out.
8)

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OpenVPN and bridge mode tunnels - Wiki'fied.

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Re: OpenVPN and bridge mode tunnels - Wiki'fied.

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Re: OpenVPN and bridge mode tunnels - Wiki'fied.

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Re: OpenVPN and bridge mode tunnels - Wiki'fied.

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