Re: How to configure iptables to allow vpn passthrough

Dan Track wrote:

On 4/5/06, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dan Track wrote:

I'd like to connect to my work vpn, how can I configure iptables to
allow vpn passthrough. I have linksys wrt54g wireless router that can
do it, but I can't manage it through my linux firewall, can someone
please suggest a way out of this.

I use shorewall to build the firewall for my router rather than the
stock Fedora iptables. Shorewall has configuration options for a few
different types of "tunnel" applications such as pptp and openvpn style
VPNs. I use openvpn with shorewall and it works perfectly. Highly
recommended.

Paul.

Hi

Thanks for the advice. I assume that you create the vpn tunnel at the
router with your firewall, what I'd like to do is create a tunnel from
a windows xp workstation inside the network. Is that possible, or is
thei a wishlist?

Thanks
Dan

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