From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 6 15: 1:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A96437B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:01:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F0A43F93 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:01:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA98891; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16MrMjM063322; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@arch20m.dellroad.org) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16MrLYR063321; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200302062253.h16MrLYR063321@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: MPD + NETGRAPH and BRIDGING In-Reply-To: <000901c2cdbd$3d736180$ec7bfea9@undercover> To: Thomas Gielfeldt Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:53:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas Gielfeldt wrote: > I just want to connect a windows client to the network behind my freebsd > gateway, and make it a part of that network. And i would prefer it to be > part of the network on an ethernet level rather than e.g. ip-level. But I > think I don't want to bother anymore connecting a windows machine, and just > stick with what I've (almost) got working. Which is bridging two > freebsd-machines using openvpn + netgraph. > > I don't think that it will work without some hack to mpd either, and the > reason I now don't want to bother with it anymore, is that I just realised > it probably won't work on the windows client either, without some hacking in > the ppp-client. I'm just going to let it be for now I think. You're right, it won't work on the Windows side either because (normally) Windows doesn't know how to send Ethernet frames over a point-to-point link; it can only send IP frames. Cheers, -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message