WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Thomas Charron]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Mark Komarinski<mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
> On 07/07/2009 10:36 AM, Tom Buskey wrote:
>> 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.
> I've gone full OpenVPN retard.  I tried setting it up, but I don't have
> it working at all.  Most likely some problem with routing that I'm
> unable to figure out.  I've spent part of the weekend trying to figure
> out what was going on, then decided my time was better spent doing
> something else and just find an already-existing box that ease my
> configuration issues.

  This should be mad simple.  Just forward port 1194.  Pesonally, I
forward just TCP, as I have multiple people VPNing in, but you could
also forward UDP if that isn't an issue.

>> 2) Use SSH redirects to the server.  I've seen this with batch scripts
>> on windows.  On Linux, I've used SSHFS.
>>
> That would be fine for me.  But the solution has to be wife-friendly.
> Anything more complicated than "double-click this, enter your password,
> and your home directory magically appears" and its usefulness
> disappears.  There are other services I'd want to access like my
> squeezecenter server, so having a list of SSH redirects becomes a bit of
> a burden to maintain.

  Does she run Windows?  Once you have the configuration set up on the
box, it is literally mad easy.  I can forward my configuration files
later if you'd like.  I'm personally using signed certificates instead
of passwords, but I could do some tests on my local configuration to
use password authentication instead.

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-- Thomas