I discovered yesterday that an eoip tunnel via a vpn should work. I had a friend who is on this list reply to me today, off-list(coward), confirming eoip will work in my scenario. G J wrote: > Ray, I don't know if no one is responding to your message or if I missed > some. I used to work at a college with a similar situation with codecs, > I'm guessing by your description that this is not a mobile codec (on a > cart). I don't know if this would be possible but you might try and get > a dedicated fiber run for the codec, or at least put a fiber on your wan > vlan. It sounds like your going to be investing in some hardware no > matter how you do it. it would be fairly easy to go with the routers, > but the more I think about it its 6 of one and half a dozen of the > other. If you did not go with the router setup you could reduce the > amount of hops as well I would think. My 2 cents. > > Jesse > > > Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:41:02 -0500 > > From: admin at lctn.org > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: [tclug-list] VPN question > > > > Originally, I was going to implement a vlan for this project, but there > > are devices in the path that I do not have access to. > > > > > > I need to create a vpn between two boxes, preferably two mikro-tik > > boxes, using openvpn, but I am open to other solutions. The purpose of > > the vpn is to connect a video codec at a remote LAN to a port based vlan > > on our WAN. The remote end needs to be on the same public subnet as the > > other video codecs on our WAN. > > > > The physical layout is as follows: > > > > Codec in remote building of school district > 2 switches > cisco 3600 > > router > fiber between buildings > cisco 2600 router > switch > WAN > > switch with port based vlan. > > > > Logically, I need to accomplish the following: > > > > Remote codec with public IP > WAN switch port on video vlan, with public > > IP on the same subnet as remote codec. Nating is fine, as long as the > > devices can ping each other without routing. > > > > I need to verify this can be done, and be pointed in the right direction > > of some good docs on how to accomplish this. > > > > > > Raymond > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Windows 7: Simplify your PC. Learn more. > <http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen1:102009> > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is > believed to be clean.