On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:47:56 +0200 (CEST) "Rene Bartsch" <ML@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I've read the description of encrypting bridge on > http://www.arnor.net/encryptingbridge. But this is for kernel 2.4.19 and > very old. Is there any encrypting code in the current linux-2.6 code or a > patch? > > What I need is a solution to connect to bridges transparently by a > encrypted tunnel and I don't want to add lots of user-space proggies on > the routers or dependencies to network protocols (which means I want to > connect two networks on the bridge layer by a encryted IPv4 tunnel running > through the internet, but be able to transmit any kind of network protocol > through the tunnel). > > Thanx for any help > > Rene OpenVPN uses tun/tap so it should be possible to create a tunnel device on both ends and add it to the bridge. The encrypting bridge isn't a bad idea, just not sure it is worth maintaining yet another VPN solution.
