Rene Bartsch wrote: > On Di, 24.08.2004, 01:45, Francois Ambrosini sagte: > >>On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 10:31:26 -0700 >>Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>The encrypting bridge isn't a bad idea, just not sure it is worth > > maintaining > >>>yet another VPN solution. >>> >> >>Greetings, >> >>IMHO, and in addition to what Rene Bartsch said, providing an encrypted > > tunnel at layer 2 can be really useful when it comes to bandwidth and/or > latency matters. > There is already a tool to do layer-2 bridging with encryption. Check out vtun: http://vtun.sourceforge.net/ I use it a great deal to do layer-2 bridging. It works with the kernel tun/tap driver and works very well. It can use TCP or UDP as the transport, offers compression, etc. Key management is up to you, however. Thanks, Josh
