Guest patp Posted October 11, 2006 Report Posted October 11, 2006 Can anyone point me to a good VPN tutorial? I'm been banging my head on the wall trying to set it up. What I want to do is route all my WnW web traffic through a secure VPN tunnel to my home PC. I can set up the server no problem, but I can't see how to make it work with the 3G connection.
Guest dskeeles Posted October 11, 2006 Report Posted October 11, 2006 Can anyone point me to a good VPN tutorial? I'm been banging my head on the wall trying to set it up. What I want to do is route all my WnW web traffic through a secure VPN tunnel to my home PC. I can set up the server no problem, but I can't see how to make it work with the 3G connection. I've just tried using my Cisco-based work VPN, while testing the USB modem functionality. The VPN connected OK, but I couldn't get traffic through it on either IE or Outlook. Early thought is TMO might at least be blocking VPN ports to us WnW std users, but I'd do some more thorough testing before confirming that... BTW - I use Bitvise Tunnelier for my laptop: fairly easy to configure, flexible, not too expensive; I use SSL over port 22, which seems to fool most firewalls. [d]
Guest yrreP Posted October 11, 2006 Report Posted October 11, 2006 Don't T-Mobile have their own VPN APN... vpn.t-mobile.uk
Guest patp Posted October 11, 2006 Report Posted October 11, 2006 (edited) Don't T-Mobile have their own VPN APN... vpn.t-mobile.uk I don't know. The point is for me to be in control of it, rather than someone else. Edited October 11, 2006 by patp
Guest pete.major Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 I set up a VPN on my M3100 over Orange. I had an old Linksys router which now acts solely as a VPN server. The router is running a free open source OS called OpenWrt based on Linux. The VPN server installed on the box is OpenVPN, an open source VPN. I think there is a windows port of the software too, but I haven't tried it. My phone is running an OpenVPN client that has been ported to the pocket pc. This is not for the faint of heart though... took me about four evenings of late nights to get this working... Here are some links: OpenWRT - Linksys router OS OpenVPN - Multiplatform open source VPN software OpenVPN port to PPC Good luck.
Guest patp Posted October 13, 2006 Report Posted October 13, 2006 I set up a VPN on my M3100 over Orange. I had an old Linksys router which now acts solely as a VPN server. The router is running a free open source OS called OpenWrt based on Linux. The VPN server installed on the box is OpenVPN, an open source VPN. I think there is a windows port of the software too, but I haven't tried it. My phone is running an OpenVPN client that has been ported to the pocket pc. This is not for the faint of heart though... took me about four evenings of late nights to get this working... Here are some links: OpenWRT - Linksys router OS OpenVPN - Multiplatform open source VPN software OpenVPN port to PPC Good luck. Hmm, hadn't thought of using my old WRT in this way. But coincidentally I was considering setting it up as a WDS repeater for my BeBox. Mebbe could combine the two. You've got me thinking now. But it's the WM5 setup that frightens me. Perhaps it makes sense to some people, but the way all versions of CE implement networking seems entirely cocked! So is it the case that you need a separate app on the device for this, you can't do it with the built in VPN?
Guest pete.major Posted October 13, 2006 Report Posted October 13, 2006 Well... WM5 does have support for PPTP and IPSEC... You can also use OpenWRT to host a PPTP server or IPSEC/LLTM server... However PPTP isn't particulary secure from what I understand. I did try to setup PPTP first, but I kept on having problems in the WM5 connection manager with The Internet vs. Work Network crap... In the end the reason why I chose OpenVPN is precisely because it ISN'T built into the OS and rises above the crappy connection manager of WM. Good luck
Guest patp Posted October 13, 2006 Report Posted October 13, 2006 Well... WM5 does have support for PPTP and IPSEC... You can also use OpenWRT to host a PPTP server or IPSEC/LLTM server... However PPTP isn't particulary secure from what I understand. I did try to setup PPTP first, but I kept on having problems in the WM5 connection manager with The Internet vs. Work Network crap... In the end the reason why I chose OpenVPN is precisely because it ISN'T built into the OS and rises above the crappy connection manager of WM. Good luck Thanks, now I know it can definitely be done I will figure it out!
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