Hi all. Since attempting to establish an ipsec connection is one of the two things so far that crashes my VPS (earlier thread on this list), I've been looking at other alternatives for possible workarounds. Let me backup, and describe what I want to do. I have a publicly routable /29 subnet with my VPS. I want to have the ability to connect to the VPS, and give a client (gnu/linux, or windows) a static IP address through the VPS. My original plan to do this was to use ipsec/l2tp, which I know how to set up, and I've seen this type of setup in action.
It seemed after doing some research that openvpn should be able to do this. After installing openvpn and reading up on it though, I keep running into the limitation that server/client must communicate over an unused subnet, and both have addresses on that subnet. Is there something I'm missing here, or won't openvpn in fact do what I'm after? If the answer is no, I suppose I can use openvpn to establish an openvpn connection using private addresses, and then do pptp/ppp over that connection. Kludgey, but should work in theory. I don't trust pptp/ppp by itself over the open net. I know there are other options here, like ppp over ssh, but windows is the show stopper here as far as I know. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130818221000.ga14...@gregn.net
