Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:33:24PM +0100, Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > >> Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? > > For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i > have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use > openvpn t

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-11 Thread Jochen Schulz
Bernd Aufrecht: > >> Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? > > For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i > have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use > openvpn to connect from from my notebook and bridge int

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-11 Thread Bernd Aufrecht
Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use openvpn to connect from from my notebook and bridge into the my local lan. This s

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
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 openv

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-10 Thread Bernd Aufrecht
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

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:18:53AM +0100, Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > >> mine always turn up on the right tap devices >> dev tap0 >> proto tcp-client >> >> I explicitly set the dev name > > The problem is that openvpn brings up a new tap0 device but > does not add it to the bridge. sorry I must of mi

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-08 Thread Bernd Aufrecht
mine always turn up on the right tap devices dev tap0 proto tcp-client I explicitly set the dev name The problem is that openvpn brings up a new tap0 device but does not add it to the bridge. You should probably figure out a way to tell OpenVPN to run a script after it has created the tap

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:43:18PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 07:47:06 Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > > How can I create a permanent tap0 interface? > > Tap interfaces are by their very nature transient, so that's not very easy. > You could use tunctl to create th

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

2009-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 07:47:06 Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > How can I create a permanent tap0 interface? Tap interfaces are by their very nature transient, so that's not very easy. You could use tunctl to create the tap interface, but I'm not sure if OpenVPN will use an existing tap interface t