In this recipe, we will configure a bridged OpenVPN server so that it uses an external DHCP server to assign addresses to the OpenVPN clients to further increase the integration of remote clients with the clients already present on the server-side LAN.
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 Fedora 12 Linux and OpenVPN 2.1.1. The client was running Windows XP SP3 and OpenVPN 2.1.1. For this client, keep the client configuration file, example3-2-client2.ovpn
, from the recipe Enabling client-to-client traffic at hand.