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Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and WEP again, sorry.


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] openvpn and WEP again, sorry.
  • From: Jean-Pierre Schwickerath <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:10:53 +0200



> This is all new to me, but it sounds like I can simply assign a second
> IP (on a different subnet) to my internal NIC.
> Could I then not just use this second subnet for the wireless AP and
> all  its clients?
> Then I would bridge this second IP address on eth1 to the TAP device
> IP  as I previously described, and those clients that didn't have
> openvpn  installed and were just using my wireless after cracking WEP
> wouldn't be  on the bridged network, but on the separate wireless
> subnet, and the  firewall would drop all packets???

Be careful. You need to bridge your internal NIC's first subnet (the one
with 192.168.2.0/24) with the tap+-device, not the subnet assigned to
your wireless clients. 


Jean-Pierre
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