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[Openvpn-users] Re: OpenVPN 1.5-beta8 released


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Re: OpenVPN 1.5-beta8 released
  • From: Luc Van der Veken <lucvdv@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 10:46:59 +0200

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:34:39 -0700, "Bert Shuler"
<bshuler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The windows TUN driver is wonderful!! Thankyou. Will there be any way in
> the future to avoid 
> "The local and remote VPN endpoints must exist within the same
> 255.255.255.252 subnet.  This is a limitation of --dev tun when used
> with the TAP-WIN32 driver."
> 
> Wasting 6 IPs on each connection is not good.

You're not wasting 6 IP's, only two (a /30 network has 4 addresses:
the network address, two client addresses and the broadcast address).

Actually this is the way I was already using TAP: one /30 subnet per
tunnel.



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