Am Mittwoch, den 07.09.2005, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Uwe Thiem: > On 07 September 2005 09:15, Heinz Sporn wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: > > [snip] > > > > > Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel over IPX, > > > you can tunnel whatever you want. So, once you've established a VPN > > > connection with another box, or a concentrator, it shouldn't matter what > > > type of traffic goes through the tunnel. > > > > Sorry, but that's simply not true. IPX has no glue what to do with a > > TCP/IP based VPN tunnel. > > ... and it doesn't need to. Gentuxx's answer above is correct.
Sucessfully creating a VPN tunnel of some sort does really not enable IPX traffic automagically. At least you have to establish ethernet bridging on both ends of the tunnel. Not that big a deal if you have two Linux boxes on both ends of the tunnel and run say OpenVPN. But I was under the impression that this is not the scenario here. > > Uwe > > -- > 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software > developers. - Linus Torvalds > > http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sporn-it.com Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
