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Re: [Openvpn-users] More openVPN setup questions


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] More openVPN setup questions
  • From: "Michael Kelly" <mkelly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:39:49 -0700

I totally agree with the mindset of one step at a time. Although I am
reasonably confident in the security of our wireless network it is a
possible security hole that should be closed off from anything VPN
related.

I am going to delve much deeper into the capabilities of out hardware
router to make sure it can do what I need it to do and go from there.

Wish me luck and thank you again
Cheers
Michael Kelly

>>> John Locke <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/04/2004 10:55:23 am >>>
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:47, Michael Kelly wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I understand your point about not really gaining anything by my
> proposed idea.
> 
> If I setup a gateway machine behind the router, no firewall on the
> gateway machine, that is also running the openVPN software any
employees
> who hook up wirelessly to the network will not go through the
gateway
> and therefore not have proper access to the VPN.
> 
Well now, add wireless to the mix and I'll contradict myself.
Segmenting
your wireless network from your wired LAN is a very good reason for
using two different gateways/routers.

> I am however still very curious about the gateway idea, so long as
it
> is possible to have connected to the network behind the hardware
> router.
> 
> I am far from giving up on the this project John, and I am positive
I
> will get a working solution soon
> 
I would suggest first getting it working the way I suggested. The
general rule I follow when setting up systems is one step at a
time--try
to do everything, and something won't work. You'll spend far more time
trying to figure out what's causing your problem than it takes to
change
one thing at a time and test at each step.


Cheers,
-- 
John Locke
Open Source solutions for small business problems
http://freelock.com 


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