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Zsolt,<br><br>
What's the basic setup for using OpenVPN with a bridge?<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
George<br><br>
At 10:46 AM 9/11/2007 -0500, Nagykaldi, Zsolt F. \(HSC\) wrote:<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>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.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>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 (<a href="mailto:stone004@umn.edu">stone004@umn.edu</a>). I can
also help, if needed.</font><br>
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<font face="arial" size=2>Zsolt</font><br>
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<font face="tahoma" size=2><b>From:</b> owner-ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov on
behalf of George Estes<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tue 9/11/2007 9:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AG-TECH] NAT and bridge traffic<br>
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<font size=2>Hello,<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Thanks,<br>
George<br>
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