[Fedora] Re: VPN

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Feb 24 05:10:42 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 21:57 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >>     Errr, I need to access the Windows network that is BEHIND the FC10, 
> >> which is acting as the firewall and DHCP server for the network.  So, 
> >> I'm sitting at home on a WinXP machine, and I need to access our Windows 
> >> Server at the office, which sits behind an FC10 firewall (iptables).
> >>     
> > ----
> > and your point is ?
> >   
>     Does installing freenx on the FC10 firewall allow me, sitting 
> outside the network, to connect to the internal network then?
----
well, assuming that this F10 firewall is actually 2 network cards, 1
with public ip address and 1 with private lan address and providing NAT
for the lan, yes, it would.

Of course running any type of GUI on this firewall is a bad idea in
terms of security.

Craig




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