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On 12.4.16 22:20, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
> news:jwvk2k3k5nz.fsf-monnier+comp.os.linux.networking@gnu.org...
>>> Anyway, I do not know of routers that will of themselves allow VPN from
>>> outside to the router. Ie, you may need to have your mother keep her
>>> computer on.
>
>      She rarely uses it. I could probably keep it on if I needed to. But
> accessing the computer isn't really what I'm trying to do.
>
>> Any router running OpenWRT (and I'd argue that if your router isn't
>> running something like OpenWRT (or Debian, of course) it's a problem
>> that you should address) should be able to run OpenVPN.
>>
>> I was using a wrtsl54gs router as OpenVPN server several years ago, so
>> any moderately current router should be up to the task.
>
>      IDK enough about this to know f it can be done. Maybe what I am indeed
> looking for is a proxy. But there's on line lists of proxies to go through.
> All I can do is set up Tor.
>      More than anything it's an experiment to see if the router can create a
> path for me to go through. As said before it would be slow. I have openvms
> for windows but it's linux that I like better.
>
>      The router has a pool I have set to IPs it can assign in the range of
> 192.168.2.2 to .75. Default it can go to 192.168.2.100. These are of course
> non-routable internal IPs. Will it assign this to a computer that would be
> accessing with an external IP in the 173.x.x.x range. < shrug>.
>
> Bill


A VPN means that there will be a tunnel built between the two networks.
The tunnel transports the packets of your internal network using the
addresses in the public network. To set up the tunnel, at least one end
of the connection needs a publicly seen IP address, which the other end
can connect to.

There are also 4 IP addresses in the tunnel: one inside and one outside
address at each end. The inside addresses belong to the internal
networks you are connecting together, and the outside addresses are
for bulding the connection. The VPN module takes a packet from the
inside network, packs it suitably for transport and uses the outside
addresses to ship it to the other end, where it is then unwrapped from
the packaging and put into the inside network at that end.

The 'P' in VPN is privacy. It is enforced by encrypting the packets
before wrapping for the shipment, and decypted at the receiving end
after unwrapping.

-- 

-TV

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