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A friend of mine asked me to recommend him an open-source |
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VPN-server for Linux but unfortunately I never used one. |
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After some googling, I have found OpenVPN but do not know |
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if it is the best choice that suits his purposes, namely to access |
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local network that does not have its own fixed IP from the outside. |
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To be more precise: the local network to be accessed to from the |
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outside is part of another local network. The latter (outer) network |
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has its own fixed IP but the former (inner) network gets its IP via DHCP. |
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So, it is impossible to connect to a computer in the inner network |
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from the outside directly. |
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The computer in local network to be connected runs Windows. |
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The said friend of mine have tried to run some VPN server from |
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Windows but it somehow hangs the "inner" computer when |
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his "outer" computer has problems connecting to the Internet. |
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So, now his idea is |
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1) to run a virtual machine in the "inner" (Windows) computer, |
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2) to install into this virtual machine very lightweight Linux server |
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only to run in it a VPN-server that should help him to connect |
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from the outside to the "inner" host (Windows) computer, which |
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has its fixed IP within the inner local network. |
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Thank you for advance and sorry for a bit of offtopic. |
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