[OLSR-users] Ideas for tunneling solution needed

[Frank Becker]

Michael Bauer [2004-09-25, 10:20 +0200]:

Hi,

> We got the following setup:
> 
> olsrnetwork----dialupline---------olsrnetwork.
> 
> and want to connect both olrs networks, the first that came into our
> minds was tunneling between the border routers, but that does not work
That sounds reasonable. Use two networks for the two olsrnetworks.

> since ip to ip tunnels are point to point and have no broadcast address
> (and olsr does not like that). I thought of adding the tunnel interface
> into a bridge and configure the bridge (i have no idea if that works).
> Does anyone else have an idea to solve that problem?
E. g. tinc [0] can be set up as a bridging VPN, quite painless
actually.
Anyhow I don't really see the benefit of sending olsr traffic through
the tunnel all the time.


[0] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/ 


Bye,

Frank

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