secure connection to my home network

ChrisD. · 9 Mar 2012 at 12:12

Sp00n said:
Sounds about right mate, is it set up on the router or on a pc/mac as a service?

It's set on my PC (on 24/7), don't think my router (DIR 655) can do it.

PistolPete · 10 Mar 2012 at 08:48

MilanoChris said:
It's set on my PC (on 24/7), don't think my router (DIR 655) can do it.

Is your router not running TomatoUSB??

ChrisD. · 10 Mar 2012 at 09:16

PistolPete said:
Is your router not running TomatoUSB??

AFAIK you can't flash the DIR 655 with anything.

cokecan · 13 Mar 2012 at 09:29

PistolPete said:
http://tomatousb.org/tut:configuring-a-pptp-vpn

However this will require setting up a client.

I've opted to setup the above, however I'm having a few issues with it

I have an Asus RT-N16 with TomatoUSB 1.28 installed. I followed the guide in the link to setup optware on an ext3 partition then installed poptop and configured accordingly. After trying to connect from my iPhone via 3G it worked great but I started to get a few errors.

I've uninstalled poptop, formatted the memory stick again and gone through the guide again but this time I can't connect with my phone. The phone complains that the communications device disconnected me and checking the logs on the router it's showing a warning about LCP: Timeout sending config-requests and then an error: GRE: read from PTY failed.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Sin_Chase · 13 Mar 2012 at 10:37

Firewall/Port Forward configured correctly for the VPN ports on the router and your device has no firewall/filtering of it's own?

cokecan · 13 Mar 2012 at 13:46

as far as I know. there is an executable script that runs and modifies the firewall of the router to allow GRE protocol and port 1723 through. If I don't run this script or restart the firewall then I get a generic "can't connect to host" error, after running this it does appear to connect but fails before it authenticates.

KIA · 13 Mar 2012 at 21:43

Time to patch RDP!

Vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2671387)

This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Protocol. The more severe of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sends a sequence of specially crafted RDP packets to an affected system. By default, the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is not enabled on any Windows operating system. Systems that do not have RDP enabled are not at risk.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-mar