Are you sure? You shouldn't need all of those ports unless you need to use all of those other ports from the remote laptop to the VPN server. If you just want to VPN from your laptop to your home network . . .you only need the VPN ports forwarded to the VPN host at home . . .once your laptop connects to the VPN you're connected to your home network and as long as all those other ports can travel either around your home LAN or from there out to the internet it should work fine.
Based on your original post, it looked like you were setting up to be able to VPN from your laptop at the Starbucks back to your home LAN . . .the above should work fine for that. Another option would be to just get an account with logmein.com, install their client on a machine inside your network and on your laptop and then you have an SSL VPN connection to remote control your host at home . . .not quite the same as regular VPN but it's free and easy to do. It also requires you to trust logmein.com since what you get in this instance is a 3 way VPN connection . . .but that's a risk most people would be willing to take I would think. It's the unsavory people sitting in the coffeeshop with Firesheep or the logger on the wifi point in Thailand or wherever you want to not trust. On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:24 AM, LuKreme wrote: > On 17-Dec-2010, at 06:17, Neil Laubenthal wrote: >> put the server you want to VPN to inside the router instead of the DMZ, > > That would require opening up a ton of ports manually. > > 22 ssh, 53 domain <long list snipped> ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
