Bridging and OpenVPN

[matbli]

Hi,

I’m running Wingate on a W2K Domain controller, just started trying to implement OpenVPN. I have now redirected the OpenVPN port to an XP workstation. Where I have bridged my local LAN with the OpenVPN TAP. This works fine I can connect remote workstation to my LAN through an Ethernet tunnel over the VPN as expected.

But - what I really want to do is obviously to run my OpenVPN server on my domaincontroller. Windows 2000 don't support bridging as XP does. But as I understand it Wingate supports bridging. So how can I make it work the same way as on the XP machine? I have noted the bridged networks on the XP machine appears as one device using one IP address, the address that I configure OpenVPN to use. But how to do that using Wingate?

I have tried to configure the TAP device with a static IP address and use it for OpenVPN and yes the VPN server starts and connects to the TAP and yes the VPN client connects to the VPN server and gets it IP addresss from the VPN servers pool of addresses, but no - no connection to the LAN.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Mats

[genie]

Hi,
Wingate does not support bridging but it does have its own VPN implementation.