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From: chris mcharg <chris@atmark-techno.com>
To: Leigh Sharpe <lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au>
Cc: bridge <bridge@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Multiple bridges in one box
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:55:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BFE8FE.8010309@atmark-techno.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <H000006900128c81.1170203983.mail.pacificwireless.net.au@MHS>

  > Hi,

Gidday

> 
> I'm looking at building a box like this and I'm wondering if it's doable.
[...]
> 
> Secondly can I bridge a tun device with a physical device, say tun0 and eth0
> bridged to form br0.
> 

I think this is pretty much standard practice when using openvpn.

http://openvpn.net/bridge.html

However, I think you might want to use a tap device as tun is IP level, 
according to this doc:

http://www.linux-m32r.org/lxr/http/source/Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt

Chris

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-30 13:36 [Bridge] Multiple bridges in one box udu.ogah
2007-01-31  0:39 ` Leigh Sharpe
2007-01-31  0:55   ` chris mcharg [this message]

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