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VPN question

  • 17-03-2014 02:35PM
    #1
    TinCool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭


    I've currently got a few ports open on my router. For example, one port I have opened so that I can RDP to a netbook I have outside of my own local network. In other words, I can RDP to my machine from the internet. This works great and has been for a number of years. I use dyndns so I can use a hostname so I don't have to bother remembering IP addresses.

    I've recently bought a subscription to a VPN service so I can surf/download anonymously, encrypted etc. When I have the VPN up and running, dyndns updates my hostname so it's pointing to the new VPN'ed IP address. I can still RDP to my machine on my internal network, but when I attempt to RDP from the internet, back in, it doesn't work.

    I think I need to port forward some stuff so I can connect back in through the VPN, but I'm at a loss here as what I need to do. Any help would be appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    its fukt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 24 ✭its fukt


    TinCool wrote: »
    I've currently got a few ports open on my router. For example, one port I have opened so that I can RDP to a netbook I have outside of my own local network. In other words, I can RDP to my machine from the internet. This works great and has been for a number of years. I use dyndns so I can use a hostname so I don't have to bother remembering IP addresses.

    I've recently bought a subscription to a VPN service so I can surf/download anonymously, encrypted etc. When I have the VPN up and running, dyndns updates my hostname so it's pointing to the new VPN'ed IP address. I can still RDP to my machine on my internal network, but when I attempt to RDP from the internet, back in, it doesn't work.

    I think I need to port forward some stuff so I can connect back in through the VPN, but I'm at a loss here as what I need to do. Any help would be appreciated.

    You do understand how a VPN woks, it's a tunnel. Opening ports on your router will have no effect of you are tunneling to another IP.

    Have you all your traffic going over the VPN? This will drastically slow your connection, not a good idea.


  • #3
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Yeah, you're mixed up OP.

    The end of the VPN is the VPN providers router, this you cannot configure and probably wont ever allow the RDP port as IPs are shared.

    You want your usage on the desktop to all push via the VPN except the IP tracking app. That needs to be exempted. Then your inbound RDP session will hit your router and go direct to the PC, not through the VPN.


  • #4
    TinCool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭TinCool


    ED E wrote: »
    Yeah, you're mixed up OP.

    The end of the VPN is the VPN providers router, this you cannot configure and probably wont ever allow the RDP port as IPs are shared.

    You want your usage on the desktop to all push via the VPN except the IP tracking app. That needs to be exempted. Then your inbound RDP session will hit your router and go direct to the PC, not through the VPN.

    Sounds like what I need. I'll see what I can do in the Dyndns update client app


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