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From: "Thomas Bätzler" <t.baetzler@bringe.com>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Payal <payal@scriptkitchen.com>
Subject: Re: passing data transparently
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:36:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4A7B96.30506@bringe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120226180356.GA25431@scriptkitchen.com>

Am 26.02.2012 19:03, schrieb Payal:
> Hi all,
> I am helping a friend with this setup. They have a device which has a
> fixed ip (say 1.2.3.4) which talks with its software running on
> MS-Windows which must be physically connected to it and must have a
> specific IP (say 1.2.3.5) only. Now it happens that the laptop running
> that software is in a branch office so physical connection is not
> possible. So, we have thought of,
>
> Device(1.2.3.4)<-->(1.2.3.5)Linux(ext add.)<-->INTERNET<-->(ext.
> add.)Linux2(1.2.3.4)<-->(1.2.3.5)MS-Win Laptop
>

Have you thought about using a site-to-site ethernet bridge over an 
OpenVPN tunnel?

It also helps to protect your privacy with regard to the data passend 
netween laptop and device.

See 
http://www.openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/76-ethernet-bridging.html 
for a starting point.

HTH,
Thomas










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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-26 18:03 passing data transparently Payal
2012-02-26 18:36 ` Thomas Bätzler [this message]
2012-02-26 18:57   ` Payal

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