By johnjchase
I would like to create a bridged OpenVPN on Ubuntu. All the tutorials I’ve found involve setting up a bridge to eth0 so that clients receive IP addresses on the same physical network as the VPS. This isn’t what I want to do.
Here is what I what I would like to create: VPS public IP: 1.2.3.4 OpenVPN internal client IPs: 192.168.1.100-200
Clients connected to the VPN should appear to be on the same network as one another, including broadcast, so that things like Bonjour work. (This is why a routed OpenVPN configuration won’t work, no broadcast) Optionally, some clients should be able to route external traffic through the VPN connection, based on client configuration.
Any ideas?
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Follow <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-debian-6”>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-and-configure-an-openvpn-server-on-debian-6</a>. <br>Then edit <code>/etc/openvpn/server.conf</code>, uncomment <code>client-to-client</code>, and restart OpenVPN.
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