Thread: VPN help
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I use OpenVPN extensively (!) on my n800. I am currently traveling indefinately and use the n800 as my primary (or only) computer. Back home, I left a DD-WRT enabled linksys wrt54gl functioning as my openvpn server (works brilliantly!) along with a linux machine and windows box. I connect using openvpn to my network, then VNC or RDesktop into those boxes (respectively). But the most relevant feature of this is the very nice "redirect-gateway def1" feature of openvpn which lets you redirect all your web traffic through the VPN tunnel. So while on the road at unknown, suspicious or certainly compromised access points, as well as restricted connections (ie. the great firewall of china) , my web traffic goes through a secure tunnel to a trusted endpoint and I have the whole internet, safe and secure.

I don't know a lot about the other VPN solutions you have, but I've worked with openvpn a lot and it will definitely do what you want and well. And having it on your home router is a particularly elegant solution.

If you want a good primer on OpenVPN on the N800, check out http://mfresh-n800.blogspot.com/2007...-on-nokia.html He's done a good job (but there are some updated packages you can update after you have those installed).

If you want to set up OpenVPN on your router and need help, let me know and I can help. Good luck.


Ryan
 

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