Hi!
Actually, what you would still need to do is tunnel ethernet over
IP. A package like vtun can do this (vtun also has encryption
itself, but you can turn that off if you're running IPsec
anyway).
http://vtun.sf.net/
cheers,
Lennert
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:00:16AM -0800, Brian Johnson wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> Please excuse me, I'm new to the list and hopefully I'm not repeating
> anything posted before (a quick look through the archives hint I might be
> OK). I've already posted to the FreeS/WAN mailing list, but someone
> suggested I might want to post here. Sorry if it's not the place, and
> I'll keep it short.
>
> My problem is that I have a well established network with 3 class C
> subnets on it -- one for equipment with static addresses in them and 2
> used in a dynamic dhcp pool. I would like allow the dynamic people to
> connect to a VPN so their traffic between themselves and the router (or
> shortly before the router). The diagram would look something like this:
>
> __________ ___________ __________
> | client | ----------- | VPN Box | --- | router |
> ---------- ----------- ----------
>
> Because of the well established nature of the network and the literally
> hundreds of pieces of equipment that would have to be reconfigured by
> hand, I'm hoping to have the VPN Box do bridging as opposed to routing, so
> the subnets will be the same on either side of the VPN Box. I've
> downloaded FreeSWan and have the linux bridge working, but they don't seem
> to be playing nicely together. Has anyone ever tried this or heard of
> anyone trying this or actually gotten it to work? Thank you for your
> time.
>
> Brian Johnson
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