VPN What software needed

[slowgo]

Hi, if I want to setup a VPN on my ADSL link to another ADSL at my office do I need to get software to do this. If yes could you please give me more information on this and how it all works. I would imagine this would be all to do with IP addresses. I am not sure how this will work as I thought your IP address on ADSL changed every 24 hours.

 

[Brandon]

Hi,

first, are you running any wind0ws server at your work? if so you can set it up there depending on your router...

Or, the other way of doing it is with 2 old (PI >) boxes you can load with linux based ipcop or smoothwall, with 1 @ home and the other @ the office. This is the best method, very secure and makes a good firewall. VPN takes precise configuration to work though, it's all online at http://www.ipcop.org or http://www.smoothwall.org

In both cases you'll need to get a free dynamic DNS account (http://www.dyndns.org), that will take care of the changing IP address. if you have a decent router that supports dyndns you can use that to update, or ipcop and smoothwall both have built-in support for dynamic dns updates.

 

[slowgo]

Hi,

first, are you running any wind0ws server at your work? if so you can set it up there depending on your router...

Or, the other way of doing it is with 2 old (PI >) boxes you can load with linux based ipcop or smoothwall, with 1 @ home and the other @ the office. This is the best method, very secure and makes a good firewall. VPN takes precise configuration to work though, it's all online at http://www.ipcop.org or http://www.smoothwall.org

In both cases you'll need to get a free dynamic DNS account (http://www.dyndns.org), that will take care of the changing IP address. if you have a decent router that supports dyndns you can use that to update, or ipcop and smoothwall both have built-in support for dynamic dns updates.

Thanks I will look into this.

 

[hilton]

and whilst you're at it, IPCop's internal VPN is ok for net2net but host2net is a dog.

So rather look at installing the OPenVPN mod for IPCop.

Works like a charm and about 30 minutes to setup.

Cheers
Hilton

 

[HaltAndCatchFire]

Hey,
I am also trying to get VPN to work on my ipcop box!

This is my setup: I have 4 pc's connected via my ipcop box. I only want a client to connect to the vpn connection, in my case only i want to connect to my company vpn I don't want to route all trafic via that link, because the others will still be browsing direct while i do work via the vpn.

And more so i only want to connect at certain times eg, start the connection manualy, i have tried running it directly via WinXp on the client pc but to no avail, connection times out!

any help would be very valued!

also were can i get that ipcop openvpn mod, hilton spoke about?

 

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