I have an application which needs to authenticate via an online server, and it must use a static IP to do it.
I need to do it via a mobile connecting through a 3G connection, so static IP is out.
The only way I can see to do this is to create a VPN (eg using OpenVPN) and connect the laptop to that, then make the connection through that.
Since I'm not entirely sure how to do this, before I waste time trying it, can anyone give me a sanity check that this is the right approach?
The only thing that worries me to start with is that I'm going into the VPN and out again; normally when I use a VPN it's to connect to a network, not use it as a gateway.
On 10/22/07, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
I have an application which needs to authenticate via an online server, and it must use a static IP to do it.
The only thing that worries me to start with is that I'm going into the VPN and out again; normally when I use a VPN it's to connect to a network, not use it as a gateway.
Set the VPN network to be the default gateway so all your Internet bound traffic goes down the VPN and out the other end.
Hope this helps! Tim.
Tim Green wrote:
Set the VPN network to be the default gateway so all your Internet bound traffic goes down the VPN and out the other end.
I was hoping it should be that easy!
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