Re: openvpn and network manager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:34 +0300, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, I poked at this some ago.  The issue here is that since TAP looks
> > like an ethernet device, it doesn't have the same IP configuration
> > characteristics as TUN devices do.  In the TAP case, you can also do
> > DHCP over the TAP interface and get an IP that way too, or you can use
> > static IP, or you can have the server push the IP down I think.
> >
> > There was also a lot of stuff about bridging in some of the HOWTOs that
> > I read about TAP-mode.  Do you have to set up bridging to use openvpn
> > TAP mode on the client?  It wasn't clear to me if that was required or
> > not.
> 
>  	I do not think so. I use tap and I have not setup a bridge.

Ok, good :)  Do you use DHCP on the tap interface?

Dan