Hello, I stumbled upon a youtube video mentioning OSPF routing search for: OpenVPN site-to-site on Edgerouter (OSPF Routing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_OwM_MDfk Don
On 4/30/20 8:51 AM, free...@tango.lu wrote: > On 2020-04-29 22:19, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:34:14 -0400, Jonathan K. Bullard wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:43 AM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> >>> wrote: >>> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 09:03:20AM +0200, free...@tango.lu wrote: >>> > > Which makes me think OSPF is only possible with the old tap >>> interfaces, >>> > > what the OpenVPN dev team even want to remove in the future, why is >>> > > there no proper support of OSPF in routed tun tunnels? >>> > >>> > Not sure where that rumor is coming from. No removal of TAP device >>> > support is planned. >>> >>> I don't know where the rumor started, but I can understand why it is >>> plausible: >>> >>> (A) The OpenVPN developers discourage the use of TAP connections, >>> saying, for example "Layer 3 is for a number of reasons the better >>> choice anyways" [1]; >>> (B) The "OpenVPN Connect" Android and iOS apps do not support TAP >>> connections [1][2]; and >>> (C) Apple has deprecated loading the system extension that Tunnelblick >>> uses to create a TAP device and, on the latest version of macOS, pops >>> up a warning saying the extension "will be incompatible with future >>> versions of macOS" [3]. >> >> Expanding further on those points, there was a discussion of this topic >> here on this list back in March 2019, under the Subject "Removal of the >> TAP Bridge, Strange ARP issue and looking for solutions for an >> alternative Layer2 VPN", e.g. >> https://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/36606924/ >> or >> >> https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04759.html >> . >> >> That disussion makes clear that in fact OpenVPN _3_ specifically does >> *not* include support for TAP (at least as currently implemented). >> >> The discussion does go on to explain that that all releases of OpenVPN >> _2.x_ will continue include TAP support and that v2 "will live for a >> long time to come"... but I can certainly understand "casual" users >> being confused by this distinction. >> >> The OP in that thread did not give an explicit reference to the origin >> of his/her information regarding TAP support/"bridged networking", >> so I'm not sure what would have helped avoid the confusion there... >> >> ... but I searched around a bit in the Community Wiki and though there >> are a number of pages that mention specific OpenVPN 3 software packages, >> I didn't find any general page explaining the differences-between and >> future-plans-for the v2 and v3 (and "Connect") product lines, etc. -- >> something like that might help clear up (a little of) this sort of >> confusion. >> >> >> Nathan >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - Mid-Atlantic region >> Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - >> http://www.ontko.com/ >> GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: >> 1023D/ECFB6239 >> Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openvpn-users mailing list >> Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > I'm sorry I didn't recall what I wrote couple of months ago but it's > amusing that some people even takes the time to read up on old dirt > and if we talk about dirt this NetGate article is the shining example > what would qualify for some bath room writing hodge-podge where the > author didn't give half a shit even to use a <code> [code] statement > (most likely even that config he posted is broken). > > That kind of shitty forum posts described the linux community well for > the last 20 years. Someone might knows the right answer or might find > it later so he leaves a half finished rant which does not work and > most of the readers don't even understand and let them find it out on > their own and when they do they will of course NOT share the right > answer with anyone LOL. > > I guess in 2020 we should be done with that type of crap quality. Just > write a proper step by step howto please on OSPF+OpenVPN but what > would be even better to have an "ospf" one liner option and when you > put that into the OpenVPN config it will just do the magic trick. > > Thank you :) > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
