VPS for VPNs, was Re: [HECnet] Need disk space for some VAX work? KUHAVX/SIIRI might be useful..

[sampsa at mac.com]

PPTP is by far the easiest to set up, frankly. 

Sampsa

On 17 Dec 2012, at 19:26, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

On 17 Dec 2012, at 12:23, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 12/17/2012 10:32 AM, sampsa at mac.com wrote:
I'm up for helping out in any way needed.

This leads me to one thing I've been thinking about - we should maybe
pool in to rent a VPS or even a dedicated server and set up a VPN
service on it.

That way people who are behind dynamic IPs / weird NAT setups etc can
VPN into the virtual LAN running on the VPS and connect via MULTINET
/ the bridge etc.

Just an idea.

I have a pretty beefy VMware host machine here, and a pool of static
addresses.   I can set this up here, for someone else to manage
preferably, no rent required.

What VPN solution would be used? Some ISPs block IPSEC, OpenVPN could brave mildly challenging to implement, or PPTP could be used.

Spin up a VM with pfSense and I can handle VPN admin from there I believe. (Yeah, it can operate as something funkier than an edge router)


                  -Dave

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