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. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
