VPN from the internet to my home network

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited July 2007 in Science & Tech
I have a smoothwall firewall interogating any traffic comming into my home network. what i would like to be able to do is use my laptop and use a VPN client to connect to my home network while on the road.

now smoothwall apparently only supports VPN tunnels from one smoothwall box with a static ( never changing DHCP ) to another smoothwall box with a static ( never chaning DHCP ) which wont really help me.

my thoughts are that i can configure smoothwall to pass all of the VPN requests to i suppose it would either be a ISA or a Linux box running VPN software. though I'm not sure how to configure it or for that matter what i want to do is actually called.

has anyone here configured a VPN client to their home network before?

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Would hamachi work for you?
  • RyderRyder Kalamazoo, Mi Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Armo,

    I have not put together a smoothwall yet, but if you can always get to the WAN side of the router, then it should accept incoming VPN requests.

    I use NOIP.com so that I can always "get home" when I want access to things (remote desktop, FTP, etc)

    Now as long as you had that setup, it would be like having a static, so you could get to the smoothwall box and initiate a VPN connection. Not sure why smoothwall would have a limitation that only another smoothwall box could connect to it, but it just might.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited July 2007
    Setup a dyndns account so you don't have to worry about what IP your home system currently has you can just go to the dyndns assigned site. I don't know smoothwall very well. But if you can specify your VPN software to use an assigned port you should be able to just make a rule to allow traffic to pass through on that specific port.

    Another way would be to use SSH and create a tunnel through it. If all you need is to pass data back and forth, mapping drives or just tunneling into a console on the remote machine this is the easiest way to do that.
  • mtroxmtrox Minnesota
    edited July 2007
    Depending on what you're trying to do, logmein.com can get you a desktop on your computer at home. It might be a much simplier way to get through your firewall.
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