Re: [Openvpn-users] clients getting same DHCP from openvpn

[Erich T. <eri...@th...>]

Ove Everlid wrote:
> On 01/29/2009 01:07 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
...
> 
> Seems to me that many years ago TUN and TAP had different feature sets. 
> Today features has been added to be able to do all with either TUN or 
> TAP. Do you agree with this?
> 
> E.g., such things a iroute to carve out subnets in TAP and expose them 
> to routing.
> 
> When you say "error-prone" are you referring to experience with bugs in 
> openvpn or just issues with the extra complexity and scope of doing 
> things at layer2 rather then layer3?
> 
> Thanks for the comment about TAP having a higher frame overhead.

It is probably not so much the frame overhead but the chattiness of a
LAN that is relevant. I would never want to have all Ethernet traffic to
go across a WAN line.

cheers

Erich