Re: openvpn and network manager

[Dimitris Zilaskos <dzila tassadar physics auth gr>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> 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?

No, my ip is assigned to my certificate DN by the openvpn server.


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