Re: [Openvpn-users] TUN and TAP on same server?

[siegfried <sie...@he...>]

Thanks for that info. 

Why would not I have to do something special to keep the two instances
of openvpn from fighting over the same port? Would they not be both
trying to use port 1194?


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>siegfried wrote:
>> I have openvpn working on my linksys OpenWRT router in bridging mode and 
>> it is working great. However, I just discovered that the directions for
>> installing openvpn on my NSLU2 NAS controller only describe using TUN
>> devices for point to point. Can I configure the openvpn on my router to 
>> do both bridging with TAP and point-to-point with TUN simultaneously?
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>You can certainly run two instances of OpenVPN on the same server, one
>doing routing and the other doing bridging. Using the standard init
>scripts, just creating two .conf files in /etc/init.d will do this
>out-of-the-box. (I don't know how OpenWRT's init mechanism varies, and
>so can't comment on it specifically).
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