Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-16 Thread James Lott
> you can do this on freebsd with no added software > look at /usr/share/examples/netgraph. In particular the ether.bridge, > virtual.lan and the udp.tunnel > examples. > You should be able to create a script that will tunnel two ethernet > bridges together using elements from each script. Ah, ok,

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-16 Thread James Lott
> > I have, in the past used UDP packets to encapsulate ethernet frames, > and tunnelled them over a PPP link using mpd. > I don't have specifics any more. I think there may be support in > Openvpn for what you want but I've never tried it. > How interesting.. That is definitely something worth

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/15/15 11:32 AM, James Lott wrote: n2n honestly looks wonderful, but it also appears to be dead... I'm trying to stay as close to the OS layer as possible with my options, so I would prefer to limit the role of comprehensive software like OpenVPN or what ZeroTierOne appears to be. I actually

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-16 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/15/15 10:40 AM, James Lott wrote: you haven't really described the network well enough.. try an ascii-art diagram (don't forget to set fixed width font :-) a VPN required two ends.. one is FreeBSD... what's the other? The thing is, the "other" could be any number of operating systems. I'm l

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-14 Thread James Lott
n2n honestly looks wonderful, but it also appears to be dead... I'm trying to stay as close to the OS layer as possible with my options, so I would prefer to limit the role of comprehensive software like OpenVPN or what ZeroTierOne appears to be. I actually found this interesting github project

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-14 Thread Outback Dingo
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 12:40 PM, James Lott wrote: > > you haven't really described the network well enough.. > > try an ascii-art diagram (don't forget to set fixed width font :-) > > a VPN required two ends.. one is FreeBSD... what's the other? > > The thing is, the "other" could be any number

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-14 Thread James Lott
> you haven't really described the network well enough.. > try an ascii-art diagram (don't forget to set fixed width font :-) > a VPN required two ends.. one is FreeBSD... what's the other? The thing is, the "other" could be any number of operating systems. I'm looking for a tunneling protocol wi

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-14 Thread Julian Elischer
On 8/14/15 6:40 AM, James Lott wrote: Hello list, I am in the process of planning a build out of a L2 VPN, in which I'd like to have my primary "switch" and DHCP server be a FreeBSD system. I would like to join each new host to the VPN by establishing an IP tunnel with the primary "switch" wh

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-13 Thread James Lott
Wow vxlans look awesome! I am definitely going to experiment with those next! Thanks for the great suggestions though everyone, this thread gave me a lot more to experiment with > On Aug 13, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Mark Martinec > wrote: > > 2015-08-14 00:40 James Lott wrote: >> I am in the proces

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-13 Thread John-Mark Gurney
James Lott wrote this message on Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 15:40 -0700: > * Does anyone know of a method supported under FreeBSD (other than > EtherIP) for tunneling ethernet over IP that they may be able to suggest > I check out? Another option would be ssh + Tunnel... ssh_config(5) for more info..

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-13 Thread Mark Martinec
2015-08-14 00:40 James Lott wrote: I am in the process of planning a build out of a L2 VPN, in which I'd like to have my primary "switch" and DHCP server be a FreeBSD system. I would like to join each new host to the VPN by establishing an IP tunnel with the primary "switch" which transports ethe

Re: Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-13 Thread Kimmo Paasiala
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:40 AM, James Lott wrote: > Hello list, > > I am in the process of planning a build out of a L2 VPN, in which I'd like > to have my primary "switch" and DHCP server be a FreeBSD system. I would > like to join each new host to the VPN by establishing an IP tunnel with the >

Ethernet tunneling options under FreeBSD

2015-08-13 Thread James Lott
Hello list, I am in the process of planning a build out of a L2 VPN, in which I'd like to have my primary "switch" and DHCP server be a FreeBSD system. I would like to join each new host to the VPN by establishing an IP tunnel with the primary "switch" which transports ethernet frames over the