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From: Thierry Carrez <koon@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP+VPN=PROBLEMS
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:34:59
Message-Id: 43B29454.8050701@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP+VPN=PROBLEMS by "João Brázio"
1 João Brázio wrote:
2
3 > I've been trying to configure GNAP as a VPN server without any success.
4 >
5 > I want to allow 10 clients connected to the VPN server at the same time
6 > and each one of them should have a different local IP address. This is
7 > possible to do with a bridge.
8
9 This is also possible to do without a bridge, using OpenVPN 2.0 "server"
10 mode. See http://openvpn.net/howto.html
11
12 > I need to create br0 bridge with eth0 with tap0. The problem is that I
13 > can't see the interfaces when I do ifconfig -a altought i can see
14 > /dev/net/tun so I think TUN/TAP module is loaded.
15
16 GNAP vanilla kernel is missing bridge support.
17
18 > Can this be done with a vanilla GNAP system ?
19 > How is supposed to use the USE_VPN flag on GNAP, p2p VPN or a
20 > Server-to-many solution ?
21
22 USE_VPN triggers the use of OpenVPN. It supports both modes.
23
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25 Thierry Carrez (Koon)
26 GNAP Developer
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