- A common mistake that people make when manually configuring an Ethernet bridge is that they add their primary ethernet adapter to the bridge before they have set the IP and netmask of the bridge interface. The result is that the primary ethernet interface "loses" its settings, but the equivalent bridge interface settings have not yet been defined, so the net effect is a loss of connectivity on the ethernet interface.
- In most cases, it is possible to set up a usable bridge configuration with the ethernet-bridge itself only configured on the server side, not the client side. If this is done, the client machines will become multi-homed when they connect to the server, i.e. they will still have their regular ethernet interface, but upon connection to the OpenVPN server, they will now have a new TAP interface which is bridged with the server's ethernet interface (and possibly all of the TAP interfaces of other connecting clients as well if the `client-to-client` directive is used on the server).
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## Notes -- Ethernet Bridging on Windows
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[Windows Notes page](wiki:WindowsNotes) has additional information on ethernet bridging.
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## Notes -- Ethernet Bridging on Linux, Setup Scripts
These scripts will handle bridge setup and shutdown on Linux. They are available in the sample-scripts subdirectory of the OpenVPN tarball.
