[MLUG] Help with network bridge (or any other solution)

Aurelian Melinte ame01 at gmx.net
Thu Mar 26 20:10:40 EDT 2009


>
>You can use brctl[1] for transparent bridging but that's only if DHCP
>will work over the vpn tunnel. Otherwise set up NAT[2] on your "tun"
>machine using iptables. From there you can use static IPs for the client
>machines or set up a DHCP server on the "tun" box to provide them with
>IP addresses.



The bridge does not likes the tun interface. I think this is because tun is IP level, not Ethernet: 

# brctl addif mybr1 cscotun0
can't add cscotun0 to bridge mybr1: Invalid argument


I am left with NAT.

Thanks,
a.




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