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Re: [Xen-users] Connecting dom0's with VPN?

from [Javier Guerra Giraldez]

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From:	Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:07:20 -0500
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On Thursday 18 September 2008, Steve Wray wrote:
> I am thinking that if I create a VPN tunnel between the two sites and
> then connect the bridged interface to the VPN this won't work. Or will
> it? Remember that the bridged interface itself doesn't have an IP
> address. And I'm not sure how OpenVPN would react to passing packets
> from the Xen bridges.

yep, OpenVPN works great with bridges.  in fact, it's the usual configuration 
when doing frame-based tunnelling (as opposed to IP-based).  in this case, 
the tunX iface created by OpenVPN might not have an IP address either, yet it 
works as expected.

-- 
Javier

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