[H-GEN] VPN Solutions

[Peter Arnold]

Take a look at http://openvpn.net/ . A little RTFM ( there IS doco :)
there may determine if it meets your needs. It seems to be actively
developed and I used it briefly some years ago for a site to site VPN. I'm
not sure if the the latest developments include a client to site option.

Cheers
Peter Arnold

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> Greetings,
>
> OK, so I have had it up to here with poorly documented VPN solutions and
> I want to ask for some recomendations.
>
> My situation:
> Home server with static IP on ADSL.
> Home network in the private range (using a 10.x.x.x/24)
> Desktop computer at work
> Laptop for luggable usage where ever I am.
>
> Needs:
> VPN that does host to network and network to network connections (I want
> to be able add whole network segments from other places like my sisters
> house).
> Windows and Linux clients.
> Ability for clients to be behind a NAT.
>
>
> Basically I want to be able to make my work desktop, my laptop and a
> couple of windows hosts (in relatives houses) nodes on my home network
> via a VPN (so if my home network is 10.1.1.0/24 I want them to have
> addresses on that network). The machine that will act as the server has
> a static interface that is live to the net. The client machines are
> invariably going to be coming through some kind of NAT. I know that the
> NAT stuff can cause problems. I have setup my own internal CA for
> generating x509 certificates for my own use, ultimatley I would like
> these to be used to do authentication, but I am willing to put up with
> something else.
>
> I have looked around at tinc, Openswan/Strongswan and openVPN. I cannot
> seem to find sufficient examples of this kind of solution (most of them
> are for net-net tunnels which is a little bit of overkill for what I
> actually need) and the documentation of all of these things is abismal.
>
> If anyone has any recommendations, help, or pointers to examples I would
> be very appreciative of the assistance.
>
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