[OLSR-users] Ideas for tunneling solution needed

[aaron]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Frank Becker wrote:

hi!

the setup in vienna is like that:

2 uplinks (cable) and lots of wifi links.
we want to tunnel the two lan cable links so that they "join" at a common 
router . this gives us redundancy.
mihi: have you tried openvpn?
the thing about bridges that i dont like so much is that - well they 
bridge all the traffic. routing would be much more appropriate i think.

cheers,
aaron.
(still want to come around to porting to freebsd - in the next few weeks 
i hope to start on it... work work :( )

> 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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