# What is Bridging? Bridging is a technique for creating a virtual, wide-area ethernet LAN, running on a single subnet. For practical information on bridging, see the [Ethernet Bridging Mini-HOWTO](http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/76-ethernet-bridging.html). See our article on [Ethernet Bridging](http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/howto-openvpn-as/214-how-to-setup-layer-2-ethernet-bridging.html) for OpenVPN-AS
