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 ... -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
