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On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Stefan Lüthje wrote: it is possible to implement OpenVPN over ethernet, that it works similar to DHCP. This would be a great thing for special links like WLAN or BNEP. The advantage is, that there is no overhead like IP. Sure, everything is possible! You just have some coding to look forward to because there is currently no such feature. OpenVPN runs only over UDP or TCP. I only recall one request for this feature on this list the last 2 years so I don't think it's a prioritised thing to implement, but only James can answer that for sure. One of the major benefits of OpenVPN is that it uses a single UDP or TCP port for everything which makes it very firewall/NAT friendly. Having said that, I can also see some useful scenarious for running it directly over ethernet to cut some overhead, but as always adding new features adds complexity which is a bad thing in security software so it has to weighted to the added usabillity... Btw, I fail to see the similarities with DHCP. DHCP uses UDP as its transport protocol just like OpenVPN does (or can do). The only difference is that a DHCP client broadcasts its first packet while OpenVPN always unicasts. I assume with running OpenVPN directly over ethernet you wanted to cut the TCP(UDP)/IP layer... Cheers - Mathias -- _____________________________________________________________ Mathias Sundman (^) ASCII Ribbon Campaign OpenVPN GUI for Windows X NO HTML/RTF in e-mail http://openvpn.se/ / \ NO Word docs in e-mail |