[Novalug] AWS for VPN

[Brander Snaxe]

ahh. makes sense. site-to-site probably wouldn't even work since you're behind NAT. duh.


thanks!



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 From: Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver at gmail.com>
To: Brander Snaxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "Don E. Groves, Jr." <dgrovesjr at gmail.com>; Northern Virginia Linux User's Group <novalug at calypso.tux.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] AWS for VPN
 

Once I get it finished. Hoping to try and finish it up by the weekend.  (Having long commute and Alzheimers patient at home makes for long days) 

AWS EC2 running OpenVPN server

Home VPN client session to AWS EC2 instance
Laptop VPN client session to AWS EC2 instance

Route between VPNs.



On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Brander Snaxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com> wrote:

How does this 'meeting place' work?
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>Is it a site-to-site VPN from home to the OpenVPN server?
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>Then your road warrior laptop hits the OpenVPN server to get back home over the s2s?
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> From: Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver at gmail.com>
>To: "Don E. Groves, Jr." <dgrovesjr at gmail.com> 
>Cc: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group <novalug at calypso.tux.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:07 AM
>Subject: Re: [Novalug] AWS for VPN
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>Some of us have 'mom and pop' type ISPs (Winchesterwireless.com) and they place their  entire wireless network behind a single address.  I didn't want to pay the $10 a month for a static IP so having a routing point from an AWS server is the cheapest way to gain access to home remotely.   
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>The only other option I have in my neck of the woods is another HORRID local WISP, 3G, or Hughes. All of which are  hard to stomach.
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>I was doing it with an SSH connection but it was difficult to keep the home connection up to my hosting provider to provide the route back to the house from the remote location and after the talk last weekend OpenVPN seemed to be a much better way to accomplish this.  If I can only get the time to finish it up.
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>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr. <dgrovesjr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Guess I missed the requirement of a place to run the OpenVPN server.
>>I've as of yet never had a "NAT'ed on (at) my ISP (level)" between me and the Internet.
>> Although up until now I've had a local NAT server on my Private network, since shortly after I first started running Linux 2.0 or so.
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>>  Don Jr. 
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>>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Some of us are behind a NAT'ed network on our ISP we need an intermediate server to create a VPN to from home and remote where we can route through.  AWS EC2 will serve this purpose to give us a small server where we can run an OpenVPN server.
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>>>PHP won't be of any help.
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>>>On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Don E. Groves, Jr. <dgrovesjr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>How instead using a FREE Website host with PHP support:
>>>>    A point to many of such sites offering the service is:
>>>>     http://www.free-webhosts.com/free-php-webhosting.php
>>>>  or
>>>>   http://www.prchecker.info/free-web-hosting.php
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>>>>All it take is a little custom PHP script to handle the passing/updating the IP addresses or whatever.
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