Syrus_BD opened this issue on Mar 27, 2012 · 53 posts
Syrus_BD posted Thu, 29 March 2012 at 12:11 AM
@millighost
Some good information there, though I'm not sure I fully understand all of it :)
The VPN I've got setup is through the basic Windows 7 RAS (Dial In) Interface. All I did to do that was go to "Network Sharing Center" and setup a new incoming connection with a user.
On the EC2 server I setup the connection to VPN into my home router.
The router is setup to forward TCP port 1723 and protocol 47 (GRE) to my host Poser workstation, apparently this is required for VPN connectivity.
After reading your post I changed the range of addresses that the Poser workstation assigns incoming addresses to be within a dedicated range of the IP's the router assigns.
So... to summarize:
I then changed a setting on my router to Broadcast NetBIOS which I think is supposed to allow computers to discover each other but I really don't know I'm still so new to this. It didn't allow the two commputers to find each other anyway.
I think I've got part one of your post right, where the IP addresses are in a similar address range. The VPN assigns addresses from 200 - 209 so as to ensure no duplication with actual IP's on the router 100- 199... but I'm not sure if that's kosher or even right.
Part two however I'm not sure of. To create a path from my local network to amazon I was thinking of using the "Routing" section on my router setup. It offers the following options for specifying routes:
Name and Metric I'm pretty sure are immaterial. Would I be able to setup a path to the Amazon EC2 server using this type of routing? Would it be more proper just to get a VPN NIC for my workstation or am I fine going through Windows 7? Would I be able to consider an SSH Tunnel (say via putty) or is that not the type of tunneling I need/can use?
This is looking more and more like a VPN for dummies thread than a Poser thread; still if the interest is there I'd like to keep at this.
Thanks for all your replies!