Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 08:17:54 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup Message-ID: <EF2A0C5E-0E72-4456-8FCF-03022FB8FA1E@d3photography.com> In-Reply-To: <307390.53296.qm@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <001b01cc0f75$770ddfd0$65299f70$@yahoo.com> <BANLkTi=mHsT9LJ1bS7kHv7o=6CMU6yoXqA@mail.gmail.com> <307390.53296.qm@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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You can still test it from home... do pings through a specific interface. Or change your routing table information. Also you can communicate from the server itself to the client to test. On May 11, 2011, at 8:11 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the replies yesterday on OpenVPN. I'd like to report a > few interesting things: > > 1. In doing some google searches on this last night, believe it or not some of > the search results were the exact questions I asked in this group, only > yesterday afternoon. And this was while I was watching Fox News make reports on > how Google is watching and recording everything these days...Sheesh I didn't > know their spiders ran that fast. > > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish to test it > with the OpenVPN client for Windows on my laptop from an outside location. But > the only outside locations I have access to right now are the local McDonalds > and Starbucks which offer free WiFi via AT&T's network. The trouble with this is > they appear to be blocking almost everything at these locations with the > exception of HTTP traffic. I can't make the connection and I cannot acces my LAN > via SSH either. I don't think they are blocking any particular ports on these > systems as much as they are just blocking everything except those ports which > allow users to surf the web. The only thing which appears in the status window > is that's it trying to make the handshake but then fails. I can ping my home > server from these outside locations so I know my server is reachable. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"help
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