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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:07:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Thomas Gielfeldt <thomas@gielfeldt.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MPD + NETGRAPH and BRIDGING
Message-ID:  <200302060007.h1607IpE059797@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <001c01c2cd69$4ff10190$7f01000a@undercover>

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Thomas Gielfeldt wrote:
> > > W2K and WXP can use IPSec, but it still uses PPP as far as I remember.
> >
> > But does Windows PPP support PPP bridging? I didn't think so.
> 
> I believe that is irrelevant. The tun-device simulates two nics connected as
> far as I understand. Only the endpoint on the freebsd machine needs to be
> bridged, not the one on the client side. At least I can see all traffic on a
> tcpdump on the tun-device, even broadcasts.

Maybe proxy-ARP is what you want then... ?

> I would want mpd to handle the tunneling traffic for me, and then instead of
> sending the data to/from the tun-device (ng0), it could send it to an
> ethernet device (eg. tap0). That way I could not assign an ip-address to the
> tap-device, but use it for bridging instead.

I don't understand what you're trying to do.  But in any case it doesn't
sound like mpd does it without some hacking.

-Archie

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