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title: Notes — Ethernet Bridging with the Bridge Occurring on the Windows Side
canonical: https://openvpn.net/community-docs/notes---ethernet-bridging-with-the-bridge-occurring-on-the-windows-side/
product: Community Docs
---

# Notes — Ethernet Bridging with the Bridge Occurring on the Windows Side

This configuration requires Windows XP or higher on the bridge side. First, make a TAP-Windows adapter ("tap-bridge") without setting any TCP/IP properties.

Select "**tap-bridge**" and your ethernet adapter in **Control Panel \> Network Connections**, then right-click and select "**Bridge Connections**." We assume the bridged network address is **10.0.0.0** subnet **255.255.255.0**. The connecting client will use an address of **10.0.0.7**.

Note that if your ethernet adapter is a DHCP client, bridging the connection may cause it to obtain a new IP address lease.

Use this config on the Windows side (the side doing the bridging):

```
    remote [myremote]
    dev tap
    dev-node tap-bridge
    ping 5
    secret key
```

Use this config on the remote (which, in this case, is a Linux box but could also be a Windows box):

```
    remote [myremote]
    dev tap
    ifconfig 10.0.0.7 255.255.255.0
    ping 5
    secret key
```

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