New to VPN

[Sleepsalot]

Hello All,
I have been working with computers fro quite some time. But really am lost when it comes to VPN stuff. I have several PC's running at home that I would like to be able to monitor from work via my laptop. Not my work PC. But don't know what software or hardware I need. Any help you all could give would be great. Or if we have any FAQ's you could point me to.
Thanks

Wayne

Life is a big Roleplaying adventure.

 

[burtsbees]

What kind of internet connection do you have at home? ADSL? If so, you can use something like a Cisco 837 adsl router at home, which has an ATM interface (RJ11), and Cisco VPN client on your laptop. SDM can guide you through creating what is called EasyVPN in the Cisco router, and it would be your VPN server (not site-to-site), unless you have a VPN device where you plug your laptop in. Please give us more details about the connection types at work and home, and what devices terminate these connections.

Burt

 

[Sleepsalot]

I have regular DSL at home from my phone company which goes into a linksys wtr54gv.3 router then to my hub then to my pc'c. At work I'm connecting to a wireless network with the laptop. I think it is cable from Time Warner. But my IT guys won't give any info or help. Some one told me to use this

http://www.gotomypc.com

but I would rather set up my own VPN.
Thanks
Wayne

Wayne

Life is a big Roleplaying adventure.

 

[burtsbees]

At work, what kind of router do you have? I only know how to set up Cisco VPN's.

Burt

 

[dtrtel]

Like Burt said, you need a router at home that can act as a VPN server. If you don't want to spend the money there is an alternative. The wrt54g with standard linksys firmware can not do this. However, you can flash it with DD-WRT which supports OpenVPN and PPTP VPN server modes.

http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/PPTP_Server_Configuration

Note you need to be able to access your connection which is probably a dynamic WAN IP service, so you'd need to use dynamic DNS, which allows you to have the same fully-qualified-domain-name that follows your IP address as it is changed by your provider. Then you can setup your Windows VPN client connection with the fqdn hostname rather than an IP address (not necessary if you have static IP service on your ADSL).

You also have to get your IT guys at work to let you do VPN pass-through out your cablemodem connection, it may be enabled by default, but if not, and they won't help at all, then it is all-for-naught.


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