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Abecedarian

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Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 43

Bridging two LAN's via VPN

Recently I became interested in bridging two (or more) LAN's via a VPN in order to boost gaming practicalities. Although I could simply run Hamachi on all the computers, I'd rather have no special software installed on any of the gaming PC's, but simply have one linux machine running on each network with the appropriate VPN software installed to form the bridge.

Each household's LAN setup would be pretty identical; router -> hub/switch -> PC's. That said, there may also be random singular machines also wanting to connect to the VPN, but I'd rather focus on simply bridging the two LAN's to begin with.
I'm guessing such a setup is possible.

What software would I need to achieve this? I've read about FreeS/WAN and OpenVPN, but am not sure what kind of configuration I'm looking for. I've seen the page in ArchWiki, but similarly, don't know if that'll give me what I'm after.

Any help, links, suggestions would be appreciated.

EDIT: I think I've found what I'm after. Will this achieve my goal?[/url]

xterminus

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From: Tacoma, WA, USA, Earth, Sol, M

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 93

Re: Bridging two LAN's via VPN

EDIT: I think I've found what I'm after. Will this achieve my goal?[/url]

OpenVPN should work fine.  Other alternatives include CIPE or OpenSWAN.

zen_guerrilla

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From: Greece

Registered: 2002-12-22

Posts: 259

Re: Bridging two LAN's via VPN

You might find this guide helpful, http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/07/213217.