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Date:      Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:00:58 -0800
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Noah Silverman <noah@webclipping.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Surf outside Internet through VPN
Message-ID:  <20081219200058.GA86470@citylink.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <E35F3ECA-9084-4C96-B4CE-D51E8E76A4A0@webclipping.com>
References:  <E35F3ECA-9084-4C96-B4CE-D51E8E76A4A0@webclipping.com>

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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:23:57AM -0800, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to find a way to pass ALL traffic from my laptop THROUGH my office 
> VPN and then out to the Internet.  This is a "road warrior" setup. This 
> gives me a few benefits:  1) I can check my email securely through VPN.  2) 
> No matter where I am, I will always have the external IP of my VPN server 
> when accessing the web.
> 
> I have setup a VPN.  Was able to get it working with either tun or tap 
> interfaces.  That part seems OK.
> 
> Now what??  (I can see and connect to the VPN server with '10.0.8.1' 
> easily.  I can't see or connect to the outside world.)  Do I need to add 
> some kind of special route in the routing table?
> 
> Would this be better as a tun or using a bridge through tap?

Have you considered just using a http/socks proxy?, it would do away with
all the routing magic.

Andrew



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