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## vpn, most basic

Sun Nov 10, 2013 5:48 pm

I did never do VPN, hence miss the most basic understanding and the most basic terms.
I set it up, and i think it now runs as a server and client at the same time. If i run "ifconfig" it is shown as an interface (which confuses me). So far, so good, it works from said machine.
But said machine is something like a home-server. I have to use "ssh -fX name-of-app". It is a low resources machine, so speed is a problem. Is there a way i can connect to said "server" from any devise on the LAN? Where can i read about something like that, what are the (search)-terms i am looking for?
nadir

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## Re: vpn, most basic

Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:27 pm

Well, i use tinc, which seems to be a beast of it's own.
I found a couple of links/how-to's, also tinc's docu:
http://tinc-vpn.org/documentation/Conce ... C_Contents
A German one:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Tinc
(it looks like the most clear one)
and
http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/an ... g-tinc-vpn
(the most scary one).
I am not sure yet if i need such weird stuff at all.
I want something similar to port-forwarding (let the vpn run on the raspberry, but use my browser on more powerful machines to browse the private network).
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## Re: vpn, most basic

Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:05 pm

I got it sorted with the help from a diaspora user:
I use privoxy (he proposed squid, but i know a bit of privoxy):
This solution only works for a single application (web-browsing).
Install the proxy
Configure it to be accessible from the LAN (instead of localhost)
Back on the accessing machine: point icewease to use said proxy.
In the case of privoxy it is:
server with vpn:
apt-get install privoxy
vi etc/privoxy/config
listen-address 192.168.0.1:9119
client:
point iceweasel to 192.168.0.1 port 9119
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