Subject: Re: [vserver] OpenVPN Interface
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:22:54 +0000

On 11/23/2010 04:50 PM, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get an OpenVPN server running in a guest and I have a
>> peculiar problem. I cannot seem to manually create an OpenVPN interface
>> exactly the same as what is created by:
>>
>> # openvpn --mktun --dev tun0
>> TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
>> Persist state set to: ON
>>
>> # ip link
>> 77: tun0:<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP>  mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
>> qlen 100
>>       link/[65534]
>>
>>
>> How can a device with link type [65534] be created using the ip
>> commands? The closest I could come up with is something like:
>> # ip tunnel add tun0 mode ipip local 192.168.0.1 remote 192.168.0.2
>> # ip link set tun0 mtu 1500
>> # ip addr add dev tun0 local 192.168.0.1 peer 192.168.0.2
>
> If this is for a guest, why don't you just set
> /etc/vservers/<guest>/interfaces/<x>/tun?

How do I tell it there to set it up as a pointopoint link?

Gordan