On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:25:08AM +0100, Bernd Aufrecht wrote: >> sorry I must of missed somethnig you also have a brcmd bridge ? and tap0 >> is not being added to this bridge ? > > Hi, > > there seems to be no problem if the bridge is running an openvpn starts > as second. But if you stop openvpn, which i did to test something last > week, it takes down the tap0 device and unfortunate does not re add the > tap0 interface again if you restart. > > If you are not running openvpn with a bridged setup the problem never > occurs. > > Yesterday I found a good solution. > > The following script and entry in the openvpn server.conf > > up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0 tap0" > > /etc/openvpn/up.sh > ########## > #!/bin/sh > BR=$1 > DEV=$2 > /sbin/ifconfig $DEV up > /usr/sbin/brctl addif $BR $DEV > ##########
Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ?
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> Somehow i missed that option completely.
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