Jim, Done that, but note, I'm not even at the point of connecting a client yet.
-- Paul @ Thy Service > make sure source and destination IP addresses are *not* on the same > network address. > > regards, > > jim > > Jim Ray, President > Neuse River Network, Inc. > > tel: 919-838-1672 x111 > toll free: 800-617-7652 > cell: 919-606-1772 > http://www.Neuse.Net > > Ask about our Clean Technologies. Established in the Carolinas 1997. > > > > Paul G. Szabady wrote: > >>Greetings, >> >>I am trying to set up a TAP style VPN but I'm apparently missing a key >>piece of information and was hoping someone could clarify this for me. >> >>I have a linux (CentOS 4.2) server w/OpenVPN (openvpn-2.1_beta7-1 >>installed from RPM built from src), and a windows 2000 server behind a >>linksys router. I need to be able to access the windows server on the >>local LAN from the internet, with an IP address in the same subnet as the >>windows server, hence the desire to set up using TAP/bridge mode. >>(Setting up TUN was easy, but didn't work as I needed it to.) The linux >>machine has a single NIC, which is why this is so confusing to me. When >> I >>set up OpenVPN w/TAP, I lose all network access to the linux server. >>Having had a "home grown linux switch" (old pc w/6 NICs running in bridge >>mode), this makes sense. I believe I have followed all the >>instructions/notes/suggestions from the openVPN howto as well as the >>Ethernet-Bridge-netfilter howto. But I'm still missing something. >> >>The big question: If I am apparently invisible to the network, how does >>one make a connection (VPN or other) to the linux server? >> >> >> > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
