Lan VPN entry to external VPN service ?.

[RimBlock]

I am currently looking at creating a VM on a clients lan which will have an open VPN link to a VPN service provider in the US.

They would like to use this link for an Apple TV box and possibly for streaming content to their PC but not for general Internet traffic.

Is it as easy as setting up OpenVPN on the VM, linking it to the service provider and then setting it as the Apple TV gateway and adding a route on the Windows 8 pc for specific addresses to go via that gateway ?.

Any links to decent tutorials / guides would be most welcome.

Thanks
RB

 

[soisix]

You will need at least 2 Network adaptors in the VM, and it will need some sort of routing software - for what you are doing pfSense would be a good option.

A few articles online, but very achievable assuming they dont have any form of FIrewall / proxy to get in the way of the VPN connection.

D

 

[ASE001]

Based on your post does the VPN server already exists? If so they will have to provide a set of security files which contain keys and connection strings. In conjunction with a VPN client (ie. openVPN) that is compatible with the VPN server it should be straight forward to create a connection. There is plenty of info on the web on how to setup a openVPN client

You may then need to create a local route on you client PC to direct Apple TV traffic via the VPN tunnel created. Although if you have a router then it's better to setup a route on this.

At the command prompt (WIN7 and XP not sure about WIN8?)
ie route add xxx.xxx.xxx.0 Mask 255.255.255.0 vvv.vvv.vvv.vvv

xxx.xxx.xxx.0 is the Apple TV service subnet
vvv.vvv.vvv.vvv is the VPN created virtual NIC.