Need Some Assistance Setting up a VPN

Mark Phillips mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Mon Jul 15 16:41:10 MST 2013


According to what I have read, it is not very secure. I could be wrong.

I am looking into featvpn now. It is based on openvpn, but provides IPv6,
which I believe requires tap, so it may meet my needs.

Mark
On Jul 15, 2013 4:39 PM, "Jason Holtzapple" <ml at bitflip.net> wrote:

> On 07/15/2013 04:32 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > After a little investigation I found:
> >
> > 1. As a user-space VPN daemon, OpenVPN is compatible with SSL/TLS, RSA
> > Certificates and X509 PKI, NAT, DHCP, and TUN/TAP virtual devices.
> > OpenVPN is not compatible with IPSec, IKE, PPTP, or L2TP.
> > (http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/341-openvpn-compatibility.html
> )
> >
> > 2. Android 4 comes with VPN type:
> >> PPTP
> >> L2TP/IPSec PSK
> >> L2TP/IPSec RSA
> >> IPSec Xauth PSK
> >> IPSec Xauth RSA
> >> IPSec Hybrid RSA
> >
> > Which seems to say that I have to go with an "after market" app.
> >
> > Back to my original question - since I don't seem to be able to bridge
> > my vpn connection from android (no tap in the openvpn android app), how
> > do I use a routed vpn connection (only tun available in the openvpn
> > android app) to my router to access any server on my network?
>
> I have the same router as you (but I don't use dd-wrt, I use Toastman's
> Tomato variant). Tomato comes with a PPTP server, if dd-wrt has one why
> not use that?
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