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I am creating a VPN

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by technogeek-1995

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I having been wanting to create a VPN with 2 networks. I don't know anything about VPN other than it mean Virtual Private Network. I only need the VPN to work when I am out of town and staying at a hotel (no router). But still let me use my wireless connection when I am at home.

*I want to know if this is possible
*If so, how to do it

THANKS

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by nimmo

I assume that you are taking a laptop with you and not using a PC from an internet cafe.

What you can do is either configure your VPN to connect to your IP address (if its static) or get a dynamic DNS account and point it to the DNS name.

(Make sure your router at home supports dynamic DNS)

Are you using Vista or XP on your remote machine?

Either way you can setup the VPN by using the add network connection wizard.

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Configure-VPN-Connection-Windows-XP.html

https://www.publicvpn.com/support/Vista.php

One thing you will have to do is to configure port forwarding on your router at home to allow the VPN to form and forward traffic to its destination.

http://portforward.com/routers.htm

When you have setup your VPN connection you can simply enable it when you are out or disable it when you put it back on your LAN.

by technogeek-1995

When it asks for information (ie:password and username) Do I put something local or a something else?

by nimmo

You can configure the VPN in different ways PC to PC, router to router, router to PC.

If you want to setup VPN for PC to PC take a look at these documents.

First you will need to configure the PC at home as a VPN server.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/networking/xp_vpn_server.htm

Then configure the remote PC as a client.

http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Configure-VPN-Connection-Windows-XP.html

As for creating the VPN via PC to router your best bet is to go to the manufactures site and look for a PDF user guide which will show you the steps in configuring the VPN.

If you configure the VPN this way you will then be authenticating to the router so what ever details you enter into the routers VPN setup are the ones you must match.

One other thing you must configure port forwarding to all the connection to come into and pass through the router.

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