Comment 13 for bug 297707

I would also like Network Manager to treat tap like any other Ethernet interface.
When it gets a "link" (i.e. OpenVPN starts up), Network Manager should take the
appropriate action, whether to configure it manually, launch dhclient, or whatever.

Yes, you could push options from the OpenVPN server, but I have the server-side
tap bridged to my internal LAN and I want the remote machine to look EXACTLY
like another machine on my net. Which means to get its IP configuration via DHCP,
just like all the other machines. I don't want to maintain (essentially) 2 DHCP
servers: a "normal" one and OpenVPN via push.

Steve

PS. I'm new to Ubuntu. In Fedora, "/sbin/ifup tap0" would use a configuration file
(ifcfg-tap0) and treat tap0 just like eth0. This at least gave me a work-around...