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|    Message 811 of 2,348    |
|    Martin Bodenstedt to Stefan Triller    |
|    Re: OpenVPN dynamic    |
|    18 Feb 04 07:24:35    |
      From: martin.bodenstedt@landtag-bw.de              Stefan Triller wrote:              > Hi,       >       > i'm searching for a way to implement openvpn as an gateway for my wlan.              I'm planning the same thing for the same reason (security). But I'm       thinking not only about the WLAN clients but the LAN client(s) as well.       A total of 3-5 clients should be managable...              > The clients get their IP form the dhcp server, that is the range       > 192.168.1.x. The gateway itself has a static ip: 192.168.1.99.       > But this is not the problem, the problem is, that I can't define dynamic       > IPs IN the openvpn.conf where it says: ipconfig local remote       > There has to be 2 statical tunnel IPs.              As far as I can tell the "physical" Ip address of the client can be       dynamic, only the "virtual" IP has to be static (the openVPN gateway       cannot act as a dhcp server as of now). But that won't help you much...              > And this results in building a lot of configs (1 per client) und a lot of       > openvpn daemons running at the same time.       > Is there a was to change this?              I don't see a way around two configs per client (one on the client and       one on the server)                     --       Martin Bodenstedt              Landtag von Baden-Württemberg (www.landtag-bw.de)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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