Recent content by Collin

Okay, routing, not switching! Thank you! I've done some googling and stumbled across concepts like access control lists and firewall rules, which appear more applicable to my problem than VLANs. Given this: VLAN1 local subnet 1 192.168.1.x/24 VLAN2 local subnet 2...

Hmmm... I know I'm going to embarrass myself here (with no networking skills beyond what I've read), but let me try to explain: Yes, remote access VPNs typically operate on L2. VLANs are a L3 construct. However, L2 switches still deal with VLAN tags on L2, so it seems VLAN operation and...

Well that was just great. Thank you! I think I now have a working understanding of VLAN concepts. What I still don't understand is how VPNs and VLANs fit together. They don't seem to be naturally compatible. Say I have a L2TP/IPSec VPN server running on my edge router. How does that VPN server...

Hey yorgi. Thank you very much for the well written tutorial. I'm sure that will come in very handy. However, for the moment I'm not too concerned with hot to get OpenVPN setup and running. What I'm really looking for is a way to isolate some parts of the LAN so not all of it is accessible from...

Hello all I'm a networking novice looking to setup a VPN that allows me to securely access my local NAS over the WAN. I already have this running using PPTP. The router acts as the VPN server. As it is now, this provides the VPN client (Windows & Linux laptops) unrestricted access to my entire...