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VPN and Firewall..

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imported_goku

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Since a firewall and a VPN have to 1. Have two nic cards and 2. Are suppose to bring the internet into the network and has everything pass throught it and be "verified". So my question is, is it possible to have the same computer be a VPN server and a firewall?
 
Originally posted by: goku2100
Since a firewall and a VPN have to
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1. Have two nic cards.

This is Not true one card is good enough
Originally posted by: goku2100
2. Are suppose to bring the internet into the network and has everything pass through it and be "verified". So my question is, is it possible to have the same computer being a VPN server and a firewall?
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It does Not matter.

In most cases VPN might be part of the Firewall appliance to begin with.

In a system with a real Server the VPN would be behind the general Firewall. In such a case the needed ports can be open through the Firewall.

Link to: VPN - Virtual Private Networks for small settings.

Link to: Cable/DSL Routers - NAT, Ports, SPI.

:sun:
 
You are not limited in how many cards are used. Typically people may recommend 2+ network ports to segment internal and external IPs used. Truthfully I've never heard of a setup with a single networkIP for external and internal on a firewall. As a best practices approach you may find a large value add with multiple physical ports to allow for further segmentation. Allowing you to avoid bandwidth issues along with able to make additional segmentation IE, load balancers, honey pots, etc. behind the firewall.

Though for home use this is a little beyond a joe sixpack home vpn/firewall system.
 
Can you or anybody recommend me a good/cheap small hardware VPN that may or may not include VPN. If it's an all in one router, I guess that'll be fine but I'm going to be making my own firewall with an actual computer and I may need to disable it.
 
Something like this?

Disabling a firewall falls under the Bad-Things? idea. You would be surprised how much scanning is going against your box right now...
 
Originally posted by: goku
Can you or anybody recommend me a good/cheap small hardware VPN that may or may not include VPN. If it's an all in one router, I guess that'll be fine but I'm going to be making my own firewall with an actual computer and I may need to disable it.
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What do you want to use the VPN for? If it's just to access files on a computer you own, play lan games remotely, or remote desktop connection / VNC
I would highly reccomend just using OpenVPN, on the computer you wish to access. It's 120% free, and works great in conjunction with a router from netgear/linksys that support Dynamic DNS. I am currently using it on my home PC to allow me to remotly use the PC, get files off of it, and connect to my brothers apartment to play Rise of Nations with them. I have no complaints about it, and would highly reccomend using it. For personal use.

If you have any questions about setting it up just PM me.

manno
 
Originally posted by: manno
Originally posted by: goku
Can you or anybody recommend me a good/cheap small hardware VPN that may or may not include VPN. If it's an all in one router, I guess that'll be fine but I'm going to be making my own firewall with an actual computer and I may need to disable it.
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What do you want to use the VPN for? If it's just to access files on a computer you own, play lan games remotely, or remote desktop connection / VNC
I would highly reccomend just using OpenVPN, on the computer you wish to access. It's 120% free, and works great in conjunction with a router from netgear/linksys that support Dynamic DNS. I am currently using it on my home PC to allow me to remotly use the PC, get files off of it, and connect to my brothers apartment to play Rise of Nations with them. I have no complaints about it, and would highly reccomend using it. For personal use.

If you have any questions about setting it up just PM me.

manno
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I have multiple computers lying around so if anything, I would want a dedicated VPN server and not install it on say my gaming machine.
 
I'm setting up a VPN server so that I can access all my network resources (not just files). I plan to have a very large network and it's not like I only have one computer. I have a file server, web server (which isn't currently running), media center, gaming machine, laptop (which actually would be the one accessing it), a few other machines, a few other machines doing tasks I have no assigned them yet.
 
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