Hosting a VPN service on home broadband

morlan

You must be able to do it

Me and my friend are both on Eircom home starter and we want to create a VPN tunnel between our home networks so that we can transfer files, play LAN games, etc.

I have a spare Windows 2003 Server box here that I can use to host a software based VPN service.
Theoretically, if I give my friend my dynamic IP address he should be able to connect to me using a VPN client. We are both using the Netopia 3347WG router.

Is this possible?

steve-hosting36

Should be, easier if you have a static IP on both ends, but eminently possible with dynamic. I use a vpn from my home pc to the office and another to my wifes school using eircom bb and it all works great

axer

Yep, you can set up VPN services on the netopia box. You can use a static IP address or use no-ip.com for dynamic addresses. Watch your IP addresses though because if you VPN into someone elses network with the same subnet as your own network it wont work.

morlan

Thanks guys. I managed to get it to work last night.

My friend could VPN into my Windows 2003 box and we could ping eachother and share files.