Re: Layer 2 Bridge
Mark <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.poptop |
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| 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev