WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>wrote:

> I have two early WRT54G systems that work really nice.  One acts as both
> router to the Internet and AP for access to my internal network, the
> other one for when visitors show up and/or have a 802.11b device.
>
> I'm now looking to install OpenVPN with bridging so my wife can fire up
> a client on her netbook and get access to her files that are on the home
> server.  From what I've seen, the older WRT54Gs don't have enough memory
> and/or CPU to handle doing that.
>
> The additional problem is that Tomato doesn't have OpenVPN on it, so I
> have to find another firmware.  Tomato has a nice web-based GUI that
> makes it really easy to configure and get easy stats on.
>
> So here I am.  Does anyone have this working now, and if so, what
> hardware/software combination are you using?
>
> -Mark
>

I can think of some work arounds:

1) Run OpenVPN on the home server and redirect the ports on Tomato.  I'm not
familiar enough with OpenVPN to know if this is possible.

2) Use SSH redirects to the server.  I've seen this with batch scripts on
windows.  On Linux, I've used SSHFS.
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