RE: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-30 Thread Kim Oppalfens
There is absolutely no need to filling up someone's logs. Cipe is an encrypted tunnel and the cipe protocol has Bridging support. In other words it is perfectly possible To have two private lan's bridged together across the Internet over a cipe interface. For more info on cipe check

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-30 Thread guitarlynn
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:55, dan carter wrote: guitarlynn wrote: A M$ WINS server will likely be a pain to get to sync across subnets, however Samba servers do it effortlessly. It might be harder to setup a WINS server, but at last look the line added to smb.conf only required wins

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread Scott Merrill
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:20 am, dan carter wrote: Charles Steinkuehler wrote: You need to talk to more Microsoft people (motto: Microsoft doesn't understand how tcp/ip works.) The L2TP protocol used by M$ WAN's is a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (hence the name), which enables your systems

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread dan carter
Scott Merrill wrote: On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:20 am, dan carter wrote: I have not used it, but there is a Linux development effort for L2TP: http://sourceforge.net/projects/l2tp SMB Browse lists are best handled in a WAN setting by use of WINS. I agree on a large centrally controlled

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread guitarlynn
On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, dan carter wrote: Is there an a linux implementation of this protocol? I have been trying to get something like that going for ages to join two private LANs over the internet. All the VPN stuff i've looked at doesn't seem to be able to forward the broadcast

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread dan carter
guitarlynn wrote: On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, dan carter wrote: Is there an a linux implementation of this protocol? I have been trying to get something like that going for ages to join two private LANs over the internet. All the VPN stuff i've looked at doesn't seem to be able to

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread guitarlynn
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:22, dan carter wrote: guitarlynn wrote: On Monday 28 October 2002 23:20, dan carter wrote: Is there an a linux implementation of this protocol? I have been trying to get something like that going for ages to join two private LANs over the internet. All the VPN

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-29 Thread dan carter
guitarlynn wrote: A M$ WINS server will likely be a pain to get to sync across subnets, however Samba servers do it effortlessly. Must be a new option, last time i looked at it there was no way to sync samba WINS servers, they said they were working on it but it would be a proprietary

[leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread Craig
Hi folks, What do I need to do to set up 2 Bering boxes to bridge 2 subnets? Is there any info available (I've looked, but didn't find any)? I notice in the /etc/network/interfaces file there's a Bridge entry that's commented out, and a reference to more files. Thank you. Craig

RE: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread Craig
help! Craig -Original Message- From: Charles Steinkuehler [mailto:charles;steinkuehler.net] Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 2:18 PM To: Craig; LEAF Subject: Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering? Hi folks (and Troy, too), I'm actually trying to connect a VPN tunnel through

RE: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:40 PM 10/28/02 -0800, Craig wrote: Hi folks, Charles, please help me clarify this in my mind if you would please...if I want my Private Student LAN to have the internet public addresses, isn't this really a bridge? Here's what I mean- Internet-Bering Box 1(School LAN)-Bering

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
I don't believe you can run a bridge over a VPN (it is not impossible in principle, but I've never seen it actually done ... since a VPN is a Network-Layer link, you'd have to encapsulate Ethernet frames in IP datagrams ... this isn't quite as weird as it sounds, but it is *almost* as weird

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 05:51 PM 10/28/02 -0600, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: [...] You need to talk to more Microsoft people (motto: Microsoft doesn't understand how tcp/ip works.) The L2TP protocol used by M$ WAN's is a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (hence the name), which enables your systems to propogate Layer 2

Re: [leaf-user] How to set up bridging with Bering?

2002-10-28 Thread dan carter
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: You need to talk to more Microsoft people (motto: Microsoft doesn't understand how tcp/ip works.) The L2TP protocol used by M$ WAN's is a Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (hence the name), which enables your systems to propogate Layer 2 packets (including broadcasts and