James Yonan wrote:
OpenVPN Addressing Topology
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However, now I've put together a brand new topology, called "topology
subnet". This topology is very intuitive, like the "dev tap" topology
where each client gets a single IP address from a pool, the server gets
the .1 address, clients get .2, .3, .4, etc., and all clients and the
server can communicate by virtue of possessing a single IP address taken
out of the shared VPN subnet. Plus -- a very cool property of this
feature is that it works on Windows clients as well as any *nix system
which supports tun interfaces being configured by ifconfig with an
IP/netmask rather than the usual local and remote endpoint (Linux supports
this, I haven't tried any of the BSDs yet).
it's amazing feature! thanks!!!
Other interesting features
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"redirect-gateway bypass-dhcp" gets around the problem of DHCP packets
to the local DHCP server being incorrectly routed into the tunnel.
one quick question without reading the whole docs.
i always like to know my vpn enpoint has a static ip address so if i'd
like to access joe's vpn i can simply use joe.vpn.company.com name. is
it possible to use this new subnet topology and somehow staticaly define
endpoint's ip address? the best would be if i can use a central internal
dhcp server which can give ip, subnet, dns and other address to the vpn
clients automaticaly. is it possible with linux and windows clients?
Merging Schedule
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With sufficient testing, this code will be a candidate for inclusion in
2.1 or higher, and will be applicable to the 2.0.x branch via manual
merging. While this patch is not huge, it's deep enough that I don't plan
on merging it in 2.0.x anytime soon.
i'd like to see some kind of early 2.1 or 2.1rc release since we can
create rpm packages this and test it.
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Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
