Thanks, Darrick,
I'll try to proceed from here. It's pretty new stuff for me. I come from
the telecoms side.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) <
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> Tom Lynn wrote:
> > Does anybody have an example config for using OpenVPN for remote
> > access. I'm using Astlinux as my home router and I'm looking for a
> > secure way to access my home network while at work or away with
> > business travel.
> >
> > I'll be using a Windows client.
> >
> > I tried the mini-howto on the OpenVPN.net website, but got hung up
> > because the Tap-WIN driver requires a subnet mask of 255.255.255.252
> > , which would seem to allow only two hosts. My home network has a
> > subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 which supports at least five hosts at
> > this time.
>
> Tom,
>
> That's not entirely accurate. Look at the client/server example here.
>
> http://openvpn.net/index.php/documentation/howto.html#examples
>
> The server sets up an address pool that must be different from your lan
> ip addresses (I use 192.168.15.0/255.255.255.0). It will take 4
> addresses per openvpn connection. (so the netmask could limit how many
> clients you have available). By default, we're setup to follow the
> client server example which specifies a netmask of 255.255.255.0.
>
> The openvpn client config is pretty straight-forward. I don't have my
> windows workstation booted right now, but if you are not able to figure
> it out with these comments, let me know and I can post an example.
>
> You'll also need to open up port 1194 (udp). I have not used openvpn
> with astfw, only arno's fw. In arno's fw, there's a config variable to
> enable trusted interfaces. I added tun+ to this varable to allow vpn
> connections access to the local network.
>
> Darrick
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