CZroe
Lifer
I've revisited and asked this question again every few years since, oh, 1999 when my friend's cable co only gave routable IP addresses if you paid extra. You used it by using your NAT'd Internet connection, which was like a LAN with every other local customer, to connect to a VPN server which would assign you an outside routable IP address.
Back then my cable co gave multiple routable IP addresses to other somputers when connected to a simple switch/hub, so I wanted to use it to be able to make a computer with a bank of NICs that could offer them to my friends the same exact way.
Now, I have a completely different purpose. I don't want my cellphone provider to see my tethering traffic. I want to connect my PC through my cellphone where they would have no idea what kind of traffic it is. Even if they can tell that it's VPN, as far as they know it's being used by a program my smartphone is using.
When I search today I see no shortage of SERVICES that do this, but I still can't find anything for setting this up myself with my own computers. Even the ones that are supposedly for connecting to your home computers "exactly like you were plugged into the same router" give you a different IP address and do not draw DHCP from the serving network. They do not grant Internet access through another because it does not set up a gateway at the other end of the tunnel.
I remembered getting excited back in 2001 when XP launched because I discovered the free built-in VPN server and I thought we could make it work, but then I found out that it doesn't route clients' outbund traffic "for security reasons." Yes, your traffic was reaching the destination network over the Internet, but opening a browser while connected and doing anything that would need to pass through that destination's gateway would fail.
What solutions do I have today? I write this paranoid that they are watching me discuss unofficial tethering on their own network right now. 😀
I set up Hamachi earlier. If I bridge it with my adapter connected to my router on the other end, can I configure both ends to route traffic to it for the remote client to use it as a gateway? As it stands, I connect and I can perform local traffic between my home and remote computers but any Internet traffic is still routed through my cellphone's virtual network adapter on the remote computer. This is in stark contrast to how I was told it would function "exactly as if it were connected to the same router at home." This is exactly as if I had an off-line network at home (5.___.___.___ range) and a second Internet-connected adapter.
For what it's worth, I have a WRT54G running DD-WWRT at home. Can DD-WRT or Tomato or something host a VPN server that can do this? That'd be even better. Oh, and I don't plan to abuse it. It's mostly so that I can launch Steam games and such if I didn't previously switch to offline mode (or couldn't, forgot, etc).
Back then my cable co gave multiple routable IP addresses to other somputers when connected to a simple switch/hub, so I wanted to use it to be able to make a computer with a bank of NICs that could offer them to my friends the same exact way.
Now, I have a completely different purpose. I don't want my cellphone provider to see my tethering traffic. I want to connect my PC through my cellphone where they would have no idea what kind of traffic it is. Even if they can tell that it's VPN, as far as they know it's being used by a program my smartphone is using.
When I search today I see no shortage of SERVICES that do this, but I still can't find anything for setting this up myself with my own computers. Even the ones that are supposedly for connecting to your home computers "exactly like you were plugged into the same router" give you a different IP address and do not draw DHCP from the serving network. They do not grant Internet access through another because it does not set up a gateway at the other end of the tunnel.
I remembered getting excited back in 2001 when XP launched because I discovered the free built-in VPN server and I thought we could make it work, but then I found out that it doesn't route clients' outbund traffic "for security reasons." Yes, your traffic was reaching the destination network over the Internet, but opening a browser while connected and doing anything that would need to pass through that destination's gateway would fail.
What solutions do I have today? I write this paranoid that they are watching me discuss unofficial tethering on their own network right now. 😀
I set up Hamachi earlier. If I bridge it with my adapter connected to my router on the other end, can I configure both ends to route traffic to it for the remote client to use it as a gateway? As it stands, I connect and I can perform local traffic between my home and remote computers but any Internet traffic is still routed through my cellphone's virtual network adapter on the remote computer. This is in stark contrast to how I was told it would function "exactly as if it were connected to the same router at home." This is exactly as if I had an off-line network at home (5.___.___.___ range) and a second Internet-connected adapter.
For what it's worth, I have a WRT54G running DD-WWRT at home. Can DD-WRT or Tomato or something host a VPN server that can do this? That'd be even better. Oh, and I don't plan to abuse it. It's mostly so that I can launch Steam games and such if I didn't previously switch to offline mode (or couldn't, forgot, etc).
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