Re: Setting up VPN

From: Frank Sweetser (fs_at_erwin.wpi.edu)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:27:45 +0000 (UTC)

Captain Beefheart <nospam@mo.com> wrote:
> We've got a private network running through a firewall/gateway to the
> Internet (ie 192.168.1.* adddresses with the firewall using an IP given to
> us by our ISP, c/o a router they installed). The firewall runs Linux, of
> course.
>
> Our ISP has give us a range of IPs and we also run various servers outside
> of the firewall - mail, an FTP server etc
>
> A handful of our staff want to access the internal network from home to
> access a couple of file servers. The best way I can think of doing this is
> some kind of VPN system. But I've no idea how to set one up, either in
> terms of hardware or software.

A VPN is definatelly what you're looking for. Check out OpenVPN
http://openvpn.sf.net/ 

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Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer
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