| Yes. I've kicked around the idea with Zsolt about doing a session over the AG, perhaps in my venue server. Caveat: It currently has been tested and is set up for 2.4 I think I now know how to make it work with a 3.0 environment but would need time to get it there. I can discuss this more. My current boss needs to know I plan to share the experience before I can solidly commit.
Joe On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:35 PM, George Estes wrote: Joe,
Would you be willing to share your experience in setting up the OpenVPN/Bridge?
Thanks,
George
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OpenVPN allows you to put your remote client computer "physically" and very securely on an ad-hoc local network. Therefore, as the most simple setup, you can run an OpenVPN server on the same machine that you use for the bridge server and handle remote clients as local network clients, allowing access to the bridge for a range of local IPs only (e.g. 10.10.x.x), in addition to your regular bridge access over the Internet. For intricate technical details of fine-tuning the bridge server, I would encourage you to contact Joe at stone004@xxxxxxx.
Zsolt
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Assistant Professor of Research
Clinical IT Specialist
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Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
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Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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From: George Estes [mailto:gestes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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To: Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. (HSC)
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Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] NAT and bridge traffic
Zsolt,
What's the basic setup for using OpenVPN with a bridge?
Thanks,
George
At 10:46 AM 9/11/2007 -0500, Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. \(HSC\) wrote:
It is generally a pain in the back to establish connections to bridge servers in a NAT -ed environment. Port forwarding is one of your options, however there are a number of issues: 1) A large number of ports may need to be forwarded depending on the bridge setup and how many bridges you want to access (security implications); 2) Some older Cisco firewalls without a decent GUI may give you a hard time to create the appropriate rules to do what you need.
My suggestion is to forget about ports and use OpenVPN on the bridge and the client machine to go through the NAT -ed network and everything in between your computer and the bridge. We have a significant experience with this and pretty good results. Your absolute expert (who came up with the combined bridge/Open VPN server solution) is Joe Stone (stone004@xxxxxxx). I can also help, if needed.
Zsolt
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Assistant Professor of Research
Clinical IT Specialist
University of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
900 N.E. 10th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Phone: (405) 271-8000 ext.1-32208
Fax: (405) 271-2784
From: owner-ag-tech@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of George Estes
Sent: Tue 9/11/2007 9:00 AM
To: ag-tech@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AG-TECH] NAT and bridge traffic
Hello,
Could someone with experience in this area tell me the issues/problems with receiving traffic from a bridge server if I'm behind a NAT. I've looked through the ag-tech mailing list and there's talk of problems but I can't find specifics.
Thanks,
George
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