Hi
So I went about trying to enable VPN on my router today. First issue detected was that my WAN IP was private. My router connects to an antenna which the ISP controls , so I guessed they are doing a NAT on their side and giving me back a private address.
Rang them up and they said their standard practice for this for package I'm on is to forward all traffic that hits 195.x.x x address to a 192.168.x.x address they tell me to set on WAN of my router.
So I set up OpenVPN on my router and edited the config file for the remote entry to the 195.x.x.x address. VPN connects and I can RDP into one of my Linux servers.
Had two questions on this though:
1./ Is what they have done not insecure?, if their Router was in my control I would have just opened a port for open incoming open VPN connection. I'm guessing that in past they were blocking connection attempts but now it's wide open and traffic could hit my router other than my own VPN attempts.
2./ Connection is terrible slow when I try to use VPN in testing , my upload is approx 3.5 Mbs but couldn't even move mouse on Linux box through OpenVPN. Need to investigate why, but any pointers are helpful.
Thanks.
So I went about trying to enable VPN on my router today. First issue detected was that my WAN IP was private. My router connects to an antenna which the ISP controls , so I guessed they are doing a NAT on their side and giving me back a private address.
Rang them up and they said their standard practice for this for package I'm on is to forward all traffic that hits 195.x.x x address to a 192.168.x.x address they tell me to set on WAN of my router.
So I set up OpenVPN on my router and edited the config file for the remote entry to the 195.x.x.x address. VPN connects and I can RDP into one of my Linux servers.
Had two questions on this though:
1./ Is what they have done not insecure?, if their Router was in my control I would have just opened a port for open incoming open VPN connection. I'm guessing that in past they were blocking connection attempts but now it's wide open and traffic could hit my router other than my own VPN attempts.
2./ Connection is terrible slow when I try to use VPN in testing , my upload is approx 3.5 Mbs but couldn't even move mouse on Linux box through OpenVPN. Need to investigate why, but any pointers are helpful.
Thanks.