Re: Novice in search of assistance with first vpn

Actually, ssh is much easier for tunneling data through some firewall, 
if the allow the outbound access.  You can tunnel and port forward data 
through ssh.  Setup a proxy server on the other end, and point to it... 
But, you can use pptpd to do it.  If that is too hard, then the ssh 
route would be a bit easier, but is outside the list here.

~Phil


On 04/23/2010 04:09 PM, Aaron Epstein wrote:
> Greetings Poptop community,
>
> I have become interested in setting up a vpn when I found that it 
> could be used to bypass a particularly evil monitoring service setup 
> by my school.  I'd like to be able to connect to my home network from 
> school and use my home internet connection to access whatever I want, 
> like ssh for example. I'd like to use pptp because its the easiest to 
> connect to from windows machines.
>
> I began here (I have fedora 12):
> http://poptop.sourceforge.net/dox/redhat-howto.phtml
> but it started going over my head at step 4.
>
> Would anyone be willing to point me to a quick overview for the 
> configure step and how to make sure that I can share internet as 
> described.
>
> I'd be willing to write a beginners guide once I know what to do.
>
> Thank you,
> Aaron Epstein
>
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