On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:34 +0300, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, I poked at this some ago.  The issue here is that since TAP looks
>>> like an ethernet device, it doesn't have the same IP configuration
>>> characteristics as TUN devices do.  In the TAP case, you can also do
>>> DHCP over the TAP interface and get an IP that way too, or you can use
>>> static IP, or you can have the server push the IP down I think.
>>>
>>> There was also a lot of stuff about bridging in some of the HOWTOs that
>>> I read about TAP-mode.  Do you have to set up bridging to use openvpn
>>> TAP mode on the client?  It wasn't clear to me if that was required or
>>> not.
>>
>>      I do not think so. I use tap and I have not setup a bridge.
>
> Ok, good :)  Do you use DHCP on the tap interface?
>

No, my ip is assigned to my certificate DN by the openvpn server.


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