Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:35:36 -0700 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VPN choices? Message-ID: <20140315223536.GA15035@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <5322B2A6.6020305@at-hacker.in> References: <5321F437.25463.1EE12BF@g8kbvdave.gmail.com> <5322B0BB.1070409@laverenz.de> <5322B2A6.6020305@at-hacker.in>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014, Alex Pereklad wrote: > 14.03.2014 11:33, Uwe Laverenz ??????????: >> I would recommend OpenVPN: it's free, reliable, scalable and quite >> easy to install. There are tons of docs and howtos available. >> >> If you need a comfortable windows client, please have a look at this one: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/securepoint/files/?source=navbar >> > OpenVPN has very strange behavior sometimes. For example, on server you > have server's side of VPN tunnel IP 192.168.1.1 and client's side IP > 192.168.1.2. You suppose that you openvpn client gets tunnel IP > 192.168.1.2. But that's not true. The client thinks that it has IP > 192.168.1.6 and the server has 192.168.1.5 %-( That's strange :-) And > you can't ping IP 192.168.1.2 from server, but can ping 192.168.1.6 :-) > But you have to set 192.168.1.2 as router to the client's network, not > 192.168.1.6. That's not an OpenVPN problem, but the result of using commodity routers with their default 192.168.1.0/24 LAN networks at both ends of the tunnel. Change the LAN addresses on one or both ends of the connection to different private subnets that don't conflict. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling, then the world will have peace. -- Will Rogers
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