Re: Layer 2 Bridge

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Mark wrote:

> My home network has DHCP and DNS servers with everything in the
> 192.168.0.0/24 subnet.  I'd like to configure pptpd to act as a layer
> 2 bridge so that clients receive a network address from the DHCP
> server and pptpd bridges traffic between the local network and the
> client.
> 
> I'm not sure what the layer 2 side of the tunnel looks like.  I assume
> that since it is a point-to-point tunnel, no ARP is being performed,
> which is why I can't see any MAC information for my connected clients.
> 
> Is this possible at all or should I look at something like openswan?

I don't think openswan will do exactly what you want to do.

I think that other than IP address allocation via DHCP, that pptpd will do 
what you want (you will need proxyarp and bcrelay options).


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