[Wylug-help] openvpn -> shorewall problem

[James Holden]

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Jim Jackson wrote:
| Gary,
|
| I'm not familiar with OpenVPN - does it use PPP over a tunnel to provide
| the VPN? If so what are your PPP settings?
|
| If your home machine is provided with an IP address on your work lan, the
| VPN server must proxy arp for that IP address, otherwise, things on the
| network won't know where to send their reply packets.
|
| Jim
|
| On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:
|
|
|>Hi folks.
|>
|>I'm setting up a VPN from home to work using OpenVPN from my laptop to a
|>machine already set up at work using shorewall to control access.
[...]

OpenVPN uses udp port 5000.

It can work in one of two modes: tun and tap.

One tunnels IP packets, much like PPP, the other tunnels ethernet
frames, so you can shovel IPX and other protocols over it. I forget
which way round it is.

James

James

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