Has anyone come up with a solution to the following limitation: I have a VTUN server which is connected to two other ham's VTUN clients (all nodes are WRT54GS with bbhn-3.1.0 and the latest vtun software install).  

If I am plugged directly into a LAN port of my tunnel server and I try to connect to one of the tunnel clients, the message on the screen says "Redirecting to Status Page" and the browser says it is connecting which looks normal, but after a while it times out with "This webpage is not available".

But if I plug my laptop into another bbhn node that I have (another WRT54GS with bbhn-3.1.0) and try the same thing (clicking on one of the tunnel nodes that appears under Remote Nodes), the connection is successful and I can even log into the remote node and make changes.

So the question is, why does it only work if I am using another node which is connected via RF to the vtun server node; and not when I am directly plugged into the vtun server node?

Darryl K5DLQ pointed me in the right direction, this is from one of his previous posts about this problem:

Cannot reach remote nodes across the tunnel

 A defect in the hotplug subsystem on Linksys hardware will cause errors when trying to connect to nodes across the tunnel.

The workaround is to insert the line below IN BOLD into the following file:   /etc/hotplug.d/net/13-vtun

====================== TOP OF THE FILE ==============

# Handles setting up rules for tunnel interfaces               
#echo "Interface is $INTERFACE $ACTION" >> /tmp/vtundscript.log

Echo “BUG WORKAROUND IN HOTPLUG ON LINKSYS” >> /dev/null
ISVPN=false
case "$INTERFACE" in
tunl0)
ISVPN=false;

......

===== REMAINDER OF THE FILE =========

Without this line, the firewall rules are not executing properly.

After adding this line to both my tunnel nodes (using WinSCP) and rebooting, I am now able to connect to the far end node from my vtun server and even log into it to make changes.

Here is a picture of my vtun client/server hardware using Linksys routers:

http://s1238.photobucket.com/user/ve3rrd/media/Broadband-Hamnet/VTUN%20at%20VE3RRD.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

Both routers are Rogers WRT54G-RG Linksys (same as WRT54GS). The bottom unit is the vtun client currently only connected to K5DLQ's server, the other is the vtun server which connects to several local client nodes. The two switches are cheap Dynex units, the lower one feeds internet to both nodes from one port of my ISP modem/router. The upper switch enables DTDLink communications between the vtun nodes rather than have all the data on the RF link.

I have DHCP disabled on the vtun client node, DHCP is handled by the vtun server node.