[ale] VPN through NAT firewall

[David Lemcoe]

If you didn't want to buy a router, just build one with some old
desktop lying around.

On 4/11/09, Devnull <devnull at iamdevnull.info> wrote:
> Hi ALErs, I have been wanting to put a VPN on my home network. I have
> the dreaded WRT54GS v6.0 linksys WAP/router, with 2MB flash (curse you
> linksys). Because of this, I have to use the micro build of dd-wrt,
> which does not have the VPN server. I have this box between my cable
> modem and the rest of the network, with my main server (HTTP, NFS,
> etc) sitting behind via wireless. I want to install a VPN server on
> this server, and pass through the NAT'd firewall with appropriate port
> forwards. From what I have heard, openswan is the VPN server I'd like
> to use, as I have Windows clients (eek). Does anyone have experience
> or reasons why I shouldn't do this? Thanks a lot.
>
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