VPN for Home Use

Greetings TEers:

I am setting up a GNS3 server and I would like access to this box from work (lots of down time and I have plenty of time to study). I was thinking about doing some sort of remote access/vpn into my house. To this end I have a static ip from my isp. Now I was thinking about remote access/vpn solutions that meet the following requirements:

Free or very little cost
Secure
Easy to set up (or at least not to difficult)
Open source - This is very important to me.

My server is going to run Ubuntu and I was thinking of putting Ubuntu Server and running open VPN on my box. I have played with several closed source solutions (gotoassist, etc) and they have the features I want but the cost I don't.

Another solution was to get a vpn mod for one of my cisco routers and set vpn up that way but none of my routers would support it and I really want to spend my money on switches not routers. Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of solution I should look for? Does anyone have any exp with openvpn?

Thanks

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Comments

keenon

knwminus wrote: »

Cool. When I finish building my box I may go this route.

I have the vpn running off of a single 1ghz cpu and 512 mb ram laptop that is running XP. I did install antivirus on it so it would have some protection. So it theres not a huge need for it to be super box.

Bl8ckr0uter

keenon wrote: »

I have the vpn running off of a single 1ghz cpu and 512 mb ram laptop that is running XP. I did install antivirus on it so it would have some protection. So it theres not a huge need for it to be super box.

Not bad. I think I have a few spare boxes so I may have a dedicated box for my vpn connections. Possible a Ubuntu box running untangle or something. It may end up like this

UbuntuVPNBOX>><<UBUNTUMAINBOX>><<<WINDOWSSERVERBOX

Im hoping that the spare boxes I have can handle the traffic. Are you using this for just remote access to a gns3 lab or other things as well?

keenon

knwminus wrote: »

Not bad. I think I have a few spare boxes so I may have a dedicated box for my vpn connections. Possible a Ubuntu box running untangle or something. It may end up like this

UbuntuVPNBOX>><<UBUNTUMAINBOX>><<<WINDOWSSERVERBOX

Im hoping that the spare boxes I have can handle the traffic. Are you using this for just remote access to a gns3 lab or other things as well?

i'm using it for vpn connections, only terminal server connection for regular users and as admin i have term server and rdp to server running lab.