Recent content by cptmikey

The easy way! Portdefender.net has a peer-to-peer channel for just this kind of problem. It's inexpensive and you can get a 1 month free trial. You need a separate account for each PC. One for your HP and one for your school PC. Run portdefender on your HP and get the IP address (ipconfig). It...

Oh boy. I think I would suggest a single subnet link between the two offices. You aren't handling that much traffic, about 30 PC's total. You could use two linux systems, one at each office to create the link with openVPN and a little iptables setup. All Internet traffic would route from your...

We have a peer-to-peer option that lets you connect two or more PC's. It's encrypted with openVPN end to end and the IP Address is static. It even works over a public WIFI. I personally use it to access my boat thru the marina's WIFI from anywhere I travel. sysadm - portdefender.net

We have customers that use TOR and then VPN through that network. Seems to work just find. sysadm - portdefender.net

Hmmm, seems they offer several types of VPN. If you are using OenVPN the default port is UDP 1194. There might be a different problem as well. OpenVPN can be configured to allow client-to-client connections, but usually isn't. Ask your provider. Also you may need seperate accounts for each PC...

Check your firewall. It's probably blocking the VPN port. You didn't say what VPN you are running so I can't tell you what ports are in use. sysadm - portdefender.net

VPN(s) won't save you from the NSA. Your communications are only encrpted between your PC and the VPN server. After that it's in clear text unless you are visiting an https website. VPN(s) are great for protecting your communications on WIFI(s) and preventing your local ISP, company sysadim, or...

Who is your server. OpenVPN connects you to a server somewhere in the world with an encrypted, private subnet. Try portdefender.net. It is completely portable and can be installed on a Flash Drive and carried from PC to PC. There is a 30 day free trial available.

PPTP uses ports that may be blocked by your firewall, router or ISP. This quote from wikipedia: "A PPTP tunnel is instantiated by communication to the peer on TCP port 1723. This TCP connection is then used to initiate and manage a second GRE tunnel to the same peer. The PPTP GRE packet format...

Try portdefender.net. They have multiple channels both UDP and TCP. The TCP channels look like normal http and https destinations. You can get a 30 day free trail membership to see if it works for you.

Well the short answer is sure, you can run an OpenVPN server behind a firewall. But it's a bit of a nightmare. First choose UDP or TCP protocol. UDP is a little faster but may be blocked on either end by your ISP. TCP is more likely to get through especially if you use a common port like...

hhmmmmmm, cookies?

Well I'm not really prepared to give lessons on network protocols and I'm on a VPN so I can't link to a private image. So this is the best I can do. After capturing some data stop the capture and click on a packet. Find one that has a 'data' section. The data should be unreadable. Something like...

I can't tell from your screen shot. The packets you are showing are just DNS, ARP, etc. You will have to actually transfer data with ftp, http, windows mount (samba) and then open the packet and look at the 'data'. The only VPN that hides your source and destination address is OpenVPN. It...