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"Tauno Voipio" <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> wrote in message 
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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.

I noticed packaged being installed on my linux. Like l2tp that might be the 
encryption protocol open vpn uses. I don't know hot to begin setting up 
though.

Bill

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  Re: VPN William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-10 00:52 +0000
    Re: VPN "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net> - 2016-04-10 15:38 -0400
      Re: VPN William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-10 21:19 +0000
  Re: VPN Dominic Reich <usenet@tmsn.at> - 2016-04-10 10:20 +0200
    Re: VPN "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net> - 2016-04-10 20:04 -0400
  Re: VPN Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-04-10 20:16 -0400
    Re: VPN "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net> - 2016-04-11 15:06 -0400
      Re: VPN William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-04-11 21:36 +0000
        Re: VPN Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-04-11 20:57 -0400
          Re: VPN "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net> - 2016-04-12 15:20 -0400
            Re: VPN Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2016-04-12 22:36 +0300
              Re: VPN "Bill Cunningham" <billcun-remove-@suddenlink.net> - 2016-04-14 12:25 -0400
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