Network briding on gateway machine for openvpn

Hi all,

We have a machine with a interface to the internet, and then one to
the main internal network. This is used to replace somewhat flaky
hardware based routers we had before. However, I was hoping to install
open vpn on this gateway machine, in bridging mode.

What i cannot work out is how you can bridge the external interface to
the main network, but allow it to maintain conectivity as the gateway
also. Many of the howtos are for briding network cards running in
seperate OpenVPN servers, is it possible to do it without having to
use a seperate ethernet card, im sure it is?!? Please help

Thanks in advance

David

On 14 Mar, 11:09, "David" <david.goody....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a machine with a interface to the internet, and then one to
> the main internal network. This is used to replace somewhat flaky
> hardware based routers we had before. However, I was hoping to install
> open vpn on this gateway machine, in bridging mode.
>
> What i cannot work out is how you can bridge the external interface to
> the main network, but allow it to maintain conectivity as the gateway
> also. Many of the howtos are for briding network cards running in
> seperate OpenVPN servers, is it possible to do it without having to
> use a seperate ethernet card, im sure it is?!? Please help
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David

Also sorry this is a gentoo version of linux, running the latest
gentoo-sources kenel.