On 9/7/05, Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. Right you are ;) The other endpoint is supposed to be WinXP box. I was wondering if there's some magical way to establish an IPX tunnel inside a TCP based VPN (using openvpn client at one endpoint). Why does everything besides random clicking have to be so hard in this damn OS..
Thanks for your awnsers. Thread closed. -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
