Subject: Re: [vserver] OpenVPN Interface
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:50:54 +0100

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 05:22:54PM +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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?

/etc/vservers/PTPTUN/interfaces/tun/
dev	:	tun0     
ip      :	10.0.0.1
peer    :	10.0.0.2
prefix  :	24
tun     

HTH,
Herbert

> Gordan