On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 14:59 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 02:06:23PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I looking to create a permanent connection between my home network and > > the private network I have at work. > > The setup is as follows: > > <Home> - <Firewall> <Cable> - <Internet> - <ADSL> - <Win2K> - > > <Workstation> - <Work>. > > > > I'm currently using the SSH port forwarding to gain access to my private > > network from work; However, this solution doesn't give me access to my > > work network from home. > > I have no control over the Windows 2K gateway/NAT, and if I bother the > > admins they might revoke my DSL privileges. > > In short, I cannot ask him to forward specific ports to my machine. > > More-ever, both IPs ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] are dynamic, > > though my private > > network is resolved using freedns.afraid.org) > > > > As far as I could see, OpenVPN might solve my problem; but AFAICS it > > requires both ends to have static IP and/or resolvable hosts. > > It requires one of the ends to have a resolvable address (IP or name) > that is accessible from the outside. The other side will initiate the > connection there. > > So you can give your home computer a dynamic IP address and have the > other network connect there.
This is the general idea. Have the work machine (re)connect to my firewall and establish a VPN to the my private network. Gilboa ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
