I have an application that connects to a device within my
network and I was wondering if Open VPN might be the solution I am looking for.
The application requires multiple open ports in order to communicate internally,
however attempts as port forwarding have been unsuccessful due to some unknown port
or security measure on the device. I thought to bypass this by using a VPN so
that the device would think the client was local.
So, I need to be able to route traffic through the router to
an internal OpenVPN server and then to the device. Is this possible? Also, I
don’t think I will need WINS or Network browsing through the VPN, I just
need to allow access to this one application, essentially forwarding traffic to
an internal IP. I want to set up the internal server on a windows 2000 box, but
have a Mandrake box to use if it’s easier or better for my situation.
Help or ideas would be appreciated.
-James