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Bill VB
Asked: 2012-03-20 09:38:35 +0800 CST

setting up bridged adapter for VPN server

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I have an Ubuntu linux Linode server that I am trying to install OpenVPN on. I'm following the tutorials (which, it turns out, are quite incomplete).

auto br0
iface br0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.10
        network 192.168.0.0
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1
        bridge_ports eth0
        bridge_fd 9
        bridge_hello 2
        bridge_maxage 12
        bridge_stp off

When I add this chunk in my /etc/network/interfaces, and I restart networking, my eth0 interface does not have an IP and I cannot get on the network (I need to use a buggy, slow, and annoying AJAX term to do damage repair).

Why does adding this screw everything up? Any tips on how to set up this bridged adapter??

Thanks in advance!

vpn linux ubuntu bridge

1 Answers

  1. Try this lines:

        auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback 

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

    auto br0
    iface br0 inet dhcp
          bridge_ports eth0

    DHCP is easier than static. At least for me it worked this way.

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