OpenVPN Installation Bridged Ethernet

[Tod Merley]

On 8/20/06, Igor Davidov <inventive at ns.sbb.co.yu> wrote:
>
> Before posting to this list I did search through Ubuntu forums,
> different FAQs, web tutorials etc. (OpenVPN WIKI is down for some reason).
>
> My home configuration is:
>
> internet/dyndns > eth0 UbuntuServer eth1/eth2 > UbuntuBOX/WinBOX
> UbuntuServer is configured as firewall/router/http&ftp server
>
> everything is working perfectly with two subnets - one on each
> interfece, now I want to bridge those interfaces to have NetBIOS flow
> between UbuntuBOX and WinBOX and to keep Internet broadband connection.
>
> OpenVPN installation went well, I did generate server/client keys, CA,
> etc. I installed bridge-utils, did enabled virtual intefaces. Finally I
> did this:
>
> brctl addbr br0
> brctl addif br0 eth1
> brctl addif br0 eth2
> openvpn --mktun --dev tap0
> brctl addif br0 tap0
> ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
> ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 promisc up
> ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
> ifconfig br0 192.168.0.235 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>
> clients cannot ping each other, /etc/init.d/openvpn start -- failed...
>
> any idea ?
>
>
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Hi Igor Davidov,

This looks promising:

# Routing NetBIOS with Linux
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1159/1/

Good Hunting

Tod

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