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Jim Ford schrieb: > It would be convenient for me to be able to access my Linux machine on > the network at the school where I work, from my XP machine at home > through my Bering Leaf box. Without flogging through the many Openvpn > docs or joining the mailing list, I thought I'd ask the question here, > as several Leaf users seem to be doing a similar thing. > > As I'll be going through the school server to enter the internal > network, I'll probably need the network admins to make some allowance > for this in their server configuration. What would they need to do > before I can get started on either end of a VPN? They could either provide you with an openvpn server at the perimeter or port forward the openvpn traffic (default UDP 1194) to your openvpn server. If I was your network administrator I would probably do the first as once you have tunneled traffic through your linux server your internal network cannot be protected against you at the perimeter. > If they can't or won't do what is required, then VPN would obviously be > a non-starter! You could set up a openvpn client on your linux machine at the school which would try to connect to your openvpn server at home. Typically outbound traffic is not as restricted on most sites. If outbound traffic on 1194 is restricted you could just as well use port 80 or even go through a http proxy. Thus you can most probably circumvent _unfriendly_ (aka professional) administrators. ( I did not tell you you should ;-) ) cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
