Rene Bartsch wrote:
On Di, 24.08.2004, 01:45, Francois Ambrosini sagte:

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:31:26 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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The encrypting bridge isn't a bad idea, just not sure it is worth

maintaining

yet another VPN solution.


Greetings,

IMHO, and in addition to what Rene Bartsch said, providing an encrypted

tunnel at layer 2 can be really useful when it comes to bandwidth and/or latency matters.


There is already a tool to do layer-2 bridging with encryption. Check out vtun:

http://vtun.sourceforge.net/

I use it a great deal to do layer-2 bridging. It works with the kernel tun/tap driver and works very well. It can use TCP or UDP as the transport, offers compression, etc. Key management is up to you, however.

Thanks,
Josh

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