OpenVPN ethernet bridge requires an IP? Why?

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m trying to set up an OpenVPN client on a Miktrotik to connect to a Linux server. It seems that every aspect of a normal configuration is somehow wrong in the eyes of the Mikrotik. UDP is wrong, client certs are wrong, shared passwords are good, compression is bad.

So I’m playing along, I changed the server to tcp, I wrote a password authentication system, I disabled LZO.

Now the Mikrotik is connecting, but it immediately disconnects:

terminating… - no ip address provided

I’m using mode=ethernet, with the intention of adding the interface to a bridge. Why would an IP be required? That makes no sense. It’s layer 2.

Is there a way around this?

Mikrotik OpenVPN Client TAP
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I tried OpenVPN in bridge mode in ROS v6.1 and IP is still required.

It really doesn’t make sense. :frowning:

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Has anybody got mode=ethernet working with OpenVPN?

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Here. Running L2 OVPN’s for 2 years. As described in manual. Create certificates first.