Sorry for top posting, Would https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/site-to-site-layer-2-bridging-using-openvpn-access-server/
solve your problem? Regards, Erik Op 31-3-2020 om 11:34 schreef Chris Rawnsley: > In the period of The Great Isolation, a friend and I wish to play > a game that has LAN-only multiplayer. We, however, live in different > locations and, more importantly, different LANs. An often cited > approach to solving this is to set up a VPN and connect the two > devices to it. This requires that both devices run a VPN client > that connects to the third device that manages the connection. And > then, hey presto! You have a "LAN". > > The complication I have found is that we are both using a Nintendo > Switch (NinSw) and this device comes without a VPN client. Initially, > I thought it would be possible to use a VPN client on a computer > which was wired in over Ethernet and then share the wireless to the > NinSw. This setup would be mirrored on the other side. The diagram > below tries to make this clearer. Search for "Where my thinking" > to skip over this. > > > |````````````| > | | .________. > | | ) ) ) |:| |:| > |............| `========' > .---/::::::::::::::\ [NinSw] > | [laptop] > | > [VPN] > | > | \ / > | _\______/_ > `-----| ... |----[uplink]----// mirrored on the other side > `````````` > [gateway] > > > Where my thinking comes stuck is how the wired connection is shared > to the NinSw over wireless. The laptop, running MacOS in the case > of my friend, will setup its own NAT to isolate the wireless > connections from the uplink. The NinSw is then unable to receive > an IP from the VPN and therefore not appear as part of the same > network. > > Ignoring the particular case of how "Internet Connection Sharing" > works on MacOS, would it be possible to setup some "VPN bridge" > (yes, I made that up) on OpenBSD where it handles the details of > the VPN connection but forwards the IP address to another device? > > If anyone has more insight into this and can point me in the right > direction I would be grateful. Similarly if there's been a mistake > in my thinking please point it out as that could help too. > > > -- > Chris Rawnsley > > P.S. the game in question is Civilization 6 and, yes, they very > annoyingly restricted it to LAN-only multiplayer... >
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