Bridging—Windows

This recipe will demonstrate how to set up a bridged OpenVPN server on Windows. Bridging on Windows is slightly different from Linux or UNIX, but the concept is the same.

This recipe is very similar to the previous recipe, apart from the different methods used to set up bridging.

Getting ready

We use the following network layout:

Set up the client and server certificates using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only networks.

For this recipe, the server computer was running Windows XP and OpenVPN 2.1.1. The client computer was running Fedora 12 Linux and OpenVPN 2.1.1. For the Linux client, keep the client configuration file example3-1-client.conf at hand.

How to do it...

1. Create the server configuration file:

   proto udp
   port 1194
   dev tap
   dev-node tap-bridge
   
   server-bridge 172.30.0.50 255.255.255.0 172.30.0.80 170.32.0.250
   ca       "c:/program files/openvpn/config/ca.crt"
   cert     "c:/program files/openvpn/config/server.crt"
   key      "c:/program files/openvpn/config...