Re: ppp / open vpn

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On 01/12/11 16:17, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
> James Carlson wrote:
>> The whole point of a point-to-point interface (of any type; PPP, tunnel,
>> or otherwise) is that it connects two distinct IP nodes.  Distinct.  Not
>> one IP node to itself!
>>
>>   
> This is another trick of OpenVPN to assign "linear addresses" to clients
> while using a PtP (tun) interface. It is enabled in OpenVPN 2.1 (and
> openvpnas, which is based  on 2.1) by using the
>  topology subnet
> directive.

That's simply frightening.  Thanks for the update; I had no idea anyone
was relying on that sort of undocumented OS feature.

Good luck getting a routing protocol to work reliably with that ...

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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