Hi,

I've installed Linux fedora 3 on my machine and I want to develop the VPN server on Linux. I've several machines which access the linux box as gateway for net and mail usage. The Webmin cp is installed on it. Now I want a external windows based machine connect to my internal windows server using RDP through linux gateway, the linux server should give the access to my internal machine using VPN connection. There is broadband service running on my linux server. How I can give the RDP access of internal network machine to external windows based machine through linux box ..?

Thanks.

Regards,
Ashwin.

search for OpenVPN. Read the tutorials.

Hey, I've got one script on web. But I'm not able to implement it on my FC3 server. Plz. look the following url, -

Microsoft VPN behind IPTABLES firewall

What I want to do is same which is mentioned in above url but it's not working on my server. I'm getting several warnings which I saw the message log, -

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Oct 2 15:40:17 nashik kernel: ## FW_I_BLOCK ## IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=203.197.174.81 DST=59.95.54.252 LEN=1492 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=55 ID=24677 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=2313 WINDOW=6432 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0
Oct 2 15:40:17 nashik kernel: ## FW_I_BLOCK ## IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=218.248.240.24 DST=59.95.54.252 LEN=364 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=25 ID=63219 PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=1034 LEN=344
Oct 2 15:40:20 nashik kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Oct 2 15:40:20 nashik kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0:
Oct 2 15:40:20 nashik kernel: mtrr: base(0xd0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
Oct 2 15:40:25 nashik kernel: ## FW_F_BLOCK ## IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=192.168.0.112 DST=220.119.176.238 LEN=53 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=46691 PROTO=UDP SPT=15536 DPT=11268 LEN=33
Oct 2 15:40:25 nashik kernel: ## FW_F_BLOCK ## IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=192.168.0.112 DST=116.42.57.42 LEN=53 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=46692 PROTO=UDP SPT=15536 DPT=15188 LEN=33
Oct 2 15:40:25 nashik kernel: ## FW_F_BLOCK ## IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=192.168.0.112 DST=122.164.226.253 LEN=53 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=46693 PROTO=UDP SPT=15536 DPT=27214 LEN=33
Oct 2 15:40:25 nashik kernel: ## FW_F_BLOCK ## IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=192.168.0.112 DST=89.39.185.77 LEN=53 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=46694 PROTO=UDP SPT=15536 DPT=9634 LEN=33
Oct 2 15:40:25 nashik kernel: ## FW_F_BLOCK ## IN=eth0 OUT=ppp0 SRC=192.168.0.112 DST=75.39.22.137 LEN=53 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=46695 PROTO=UDP SPT=15536 DPT=8819 LEN=33
Oct 2 15:40:34 nashik kernel: ## FW_I_BLOCK ## IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=203.197.114.21 DST=59.95.54.252 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=57 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=1438 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0
Oct 2 15:40:35 nashik kernel: ## FW_I_BLOCK ## IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=203.200.85.168 DST=59.95.54.252 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=57 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=2327 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0
Oct 2 15:40:36 nashik kernel: ## FW_I_BLOCK ## IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=217.163.21.31 DST=59.95.54.252 LEN=1492 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=42717 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=2328 WINDOW=8001 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0
Oct 2 15:41:01 nashik crond(pam_unix)[3293]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)

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Also I'm printing here my ifconfig output, -

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:134:19:CE:37
inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:135663 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:139336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe400

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:A1:78:26:A6
inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:200113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:103677 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:44691 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44691 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:59.95.27.221 P-t-P:59.96.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:199370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:102927 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

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Please help me out to develop the VPN server access through the firewall.

Thanks.

Regards,
Ashwin

Again, I would highly recommend you try OpenVPN. The tutorials are really good and it uses SSL instead of PPTP.

hi aswhin,

what seems to be the problem?
it seems you dont have a VPN server running yet?
that iptables log shows us nothing except reguler bad traffic - but not VPN-specific.
was it PPTP or OpenVPN?