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Date:      Thu, 5 May 2011 09:31:10 +1000
From:      Geoff Roberts <geoff@apro.com.au>
To:        David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?
Message-ID:  <201105050931.10562.geoff@apro.com.au>
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Hi David and others,

Thanks for the feedback.

On Thu, 5 May 2011 07:24:13 am David Brodbeck wrote:
> The problem I've always found with bridged solutions is they don't
> cope well under heavy traffic loads when the VPN link is slower than
> the LANs they're bridging between.  And the VPN link is usually slower
> if it's over a WAN.  The link tends to get saturated.

Was this easy to measure, and how did you measure this - dropped packets on 
the bridge interface?

Kind regards,

Geoff

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