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From: armin langhofer <office@langhofer.at>
To: bridge@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridge with ppp0
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 00:26:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41EEECA5.7050409@langhofer.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41EECDA0.4090909@jbaw.iba.by>

thanx for your answer. i nearly gave it up :)

i gonna try this with openvpn ... thanx for mail


regards, armin.

Bogdan B. Rudas wrote:
> You should use interfaces with same MTU size. In same situaion I made 
> OpenVPN tunel over ppp conntction with MTU 1500 (same as in ethernet 
> network)
> 
> On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 00:10:22 +0100
> armin langhofer <office@langhofer.at> wrote:
> 
>> hi there
>>
>> i found your project and tried to bridge two ppp devices.
>>
>>
>> you say (http://bridge.sourceforge.net/faq.html) that this is possible:
>>
>> ... "Linux bridging is very flexible; the LAN's can be either 
>> traditional Ethernet device's, or pseudo-devices such as PPP, VPN's or 
>> VLAN's. The only restrictions are that the devices:" ...
>>
>>
>> i tried this but got "br_add_interface: Invalid argument" when adding 
>> a ppp device to the bridge. adding an ethernet device works perfectly!
>>
>> 00:07:21 protector ~ # brctl addbr br0
>> 00:07:22 protector ~ # brctl addif br0 eth2
>> 00:07:30 protector ~ # brctl addif br0 ppp0
>> br_add_interface: Invalid argument
>>
>>
>>
>> the ppp's are done with pppd and pptpd (poptop)
>> 00:09:39 protector ~ # pppd --version
>> pppd version 2.4.2
>> 00:09:44 protector ~ # pptpd --version
>> PoPToP v1.1.4-b4
>>
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> best regards, armin.
>> -- 
>> armin langhofer
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-19 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 23:10 [Bridge] bridge with ppp0 armin langhofer
2005-01-19 21:14 ` Bogdan B. Rudas
2005-01-19 23:26   ` armin langhofer [this message]

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