Re: [Openvpn-users] STP and fully-connected mesh of bridges

[Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/3/05, Markus Mueller <openvpn030905@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Hi Leonard Isham,
>  
>  
>  I have the same problem, but with more than 2 hosts. I want broadcasts,
> cause many games doesn't allow internet game without key. Network browsing
> and many other things works easier (static ip if you have dynamic ip at
> home, ...).
>  
>  Effectively it is easy: Our upstream is limited, so we can't do a full
> mesh. A better resolution is a single server, which is acting as switch. The
> only thing that talks against that is, that packets from Client A to Client
> B goes over this Switching VPN-Server and only now to Client B. I found a
> fine resolution cause all my clients are connected to the same peering point
> here in munich. I installed my vpn switching server on a provider which has
> a direct connection to this peering point. The roundtrip-time (a ping) from
> there to the clients is less than 10 ms. So the clients are connected to
> eachother with about 20ms, which is perfectly fine.
>  
>  I don't think that there is a better resolution in my situation. ... if the
> vpn server would work, as I wrote in my last mail "OpenVPN makes VPN-Server
> unreachable via TCP/UDP (not ping) if a client connects".
>  

That would make it fair.  If you are all on the same provider and can
get a system hosted for the right price.  Not sure about what your
exact problem is...


-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.

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