On 17-Dec-2010, at 08:58, Neil Laubenthal wrote: > 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.
The isseu is getting connected to the server, and the server is using those ports. Well, honestly not sure what a couple of them are, but most of them, certainly. > 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. The point is not security, but rather getting this working as something new and interesting. All I'm doing at the coffee house (not Starbucks!) is reading USENET and reading random web pages. -- Lister: What d'ya think of Betty? Cat: Betty Rubble? Well, I would go with Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma. Lister: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone? Cat: You're right. We're nuts. This is an insane conversation. Lister: She'll never leave Fred, and we know it. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
