Dear Mark, As the other colleagues have stated, bridge-utils are used for layer 2 bridging but not only for OpenVPN. (See http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/76-ethernet-bridging.html). I wanted to use it also for some test with QEMU but couldn't find it at that time as well. It consists of some parts such as the brctl command.
Here an excerpt from the OpenVPN HowTo: First, make sure you have the *bridge-utils* package installed. Edit the bridge-start <http://openvpn.net/bridge.html#linuxscript> script below. Set the *br*, *tap*, *eth*, *eth_ip*, *eth_netmask*, and * eth_broadcast* parameters according to the physical ethernet interface you would like to bridge. Make sure to use an interface which is private and which is connected to a LAN which is protected from the internet by a firewall. You can use the Linux *ifconfig* command to get the necessary information about your network interfaces to fill in the *bridge-start*parameters. Now run the *bridge-start* script. It will create a persistent *tap0*interface and bridge it with the active ethernet interface. Here is also some entry from Novell support forum for someone who had problems with it: http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles/sles-networking/357274-bridge-utiles-crashing-sles-10-sp2.html I need a way to avoid defining the OpenVPN network as route on all my machines as the OpenVPN Host is not on the default gateway in my network. I am not sure if I could masquerading on the OpenVPN instead. Maybe someone has a good idea for that. Thanks Florian On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On 7/19/2009 at 1:24 PM, Florian Bilek <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I can't find the bridge-utils package on SLES 10 SP2. Is it not > available? > > Would need it to set up a openVPN configuration. Does anybody know where > to > > get it? > > I've never even heard of it, and I've had no problem with using openVPN. > What does it do, and what commands/programs/libraries does it provide? > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Best regards Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
