[conspire] another 'survey' - home VPN server

[Tony Godshall]

Or you can tunnel the openvpn port to a competent server and if you
want to kill the vpn you just ...

# /etc/init.d/openvpn stop

or

# service openvpn stop

In what way is shutting down a whole OS cleaner than shutting down a
single daemon?

But don't mind me... there's a whole industry behind your way of thinking...

Best Regards.



On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 23:20, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree. but, my router is D-Link DIR-655, which does not have VPN abilities
> (to the best of my knowledge), and cannot be flushed with WRT. so, it's
> either replacing a rather decent router by paying up for a new one, or
> having the VPN inside, on physical or virtual. the benefit of virtual is
> cleanliness - i want to kill the VPN - i kill the VM. no need to worry about
> what happens after reboots, dependencies on my main server and such. benefit
> of having an appliance - nice management interface. benefit of having a
> white-box, ubuntu based appliance - have some freedom in logging in,
> installing extra modules if i want.
>
> other than that - i agree. if i had my way, i would have a dual NIC
> connected to the modem, acting as gateway, firewall, VPN and all else.
>
> Ehud
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
>>
>> It seems rather backward- I'd want to run my VPN on the gateway, not
>> tunnel it into a VM and then try to default-route through that...
>> seems like what you gain in not having to run apt-get or whatever is
>> lost in networking complexity...
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 22:05, Ehud Kaldor <ehud.kaldor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i am playing with a virtual network appliance, specifically Zentyal
>> > server,
>> > running as VM on VirtualBox.
>> > http://www.zentyal.org/downloads/
>> > ((which is using openVPN as its VPN module).
>> >
>> > if anyone know this, especially bad stuff - let me know...
>> >
>> > Ehud
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Tony Godshall <tony at of.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> i'm looking to install a VPN server at home, so i can connect while
>> >> >> away.
>> >> >> i'm not sure what the technical terminology is, but i'm looking to
>> >> >> having
>> >> >> access to all machines on the network (get an IP on the network,
>> >> >> assigned
>> >> >> by the DHCP server, i guess).  any recommendation? i am a bit
>> >> >> familiar
>> >> >> with
>> >> >> openVPN, but ...
>> >>
>> >> > I've used OpenVPN for this, in several different organizations, with
>> >> > good
>> >> > success.  ...
>> >>
>> >> Why are you looking for something else?  I've been OpenVPN in
>> >> production environments for nearly a decade- it is solid and stable.
>> >>
>> >> Alternatively if you value security and don't really want to expose
>> >> one whole network to another, ssh tunneling works great for tunneling
>> >> specific services here and there.
>> >>
>> >> Tony
>> >>
>> >> > having access to the machines on your network), but it's not that
>> >> > awful
>> >> > to
>> >> > do (and there's good help to be found for this online), and also
>> >> > really
>> >> > doesn't require much of any hand-holding once it's set up.
>> >> >
>> >> > You can feel free to email me offlist if you have specific questions.
>> >> >
>> >> > DR
>> >> >
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