Re: Layer 2 Bridge

Mark <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Charlie Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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).
>

Ok, that was simple.  I configured pptpd vend an address on the local
subnet, while its side of the tunnel was on a different one.  I
originally thought this would cause routing problems, but it works
just fine with proxyarp and bcrelay.

Thanks for the help!

Mark

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