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Hi, I'm a pretty technical person but a OpenVPN noob, so thanks for your patience.

I have a DD-WRT router and have successfully connected to my strongVPN openVPN account and had it work fine. But my router I think is too slow to do all the processing for netflix and is a bottleneck so I want to run the software openVPN client on my computer (netflix runs fine on my computer). I then want to put a second ethernet card in my computer and bridge the openVPN internet connection to it then to my Roku media streamer via an ethernet cable from the second adapter.

I am running Win 7(64).

Is this possible? And if so, can you direct me to some instructions?

Thanks!

Hello,

The problem isn't really about bridging. What you would need to successfully implement this would be some kind of NAT functionality on your Windows system. I did some cursory searching; apparently there are 3rd party, commercial add-ons for Windows to provide this sort of thing, but the only version of Windows that comes with it seems to be Windows Server 2008. It would be different if this were a bridged vpn connection that provided IP space for multiple machines.

C'est la vie

-Stephen