How to push a public IP on your laptop using SSH bridged tunnel

Posted on Sun 04 March 2012 in Systems • Tagged with routing, ssh, vpnLeave a comment

In my previous post I talked about Layer 3 VPN feature of OpenSSH (starting from version 4.3).
Now, I'm talking about bridged VPN or Layer 2 VPN. With this feature you can create a virtual network device that, through the encrypted tunnel, is connected on the same network ...

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Howto configure multiple mac address over a single ethernet interface

Posted on Tue 04 October 2011 in Systems • Tagged with iptables, linux, networking, routingLeave a comment

I up against this problem on a server hosted by Hetzner.My server is a virtual hypervisor containing several virtual machines.The Hetzner's politics is to statically associate a public IP to a single mac address, is therefore impossible to have multiple IP address on a single ethernet device ...

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