Matt-J.co.uk : Ramblings

Back at home tonight as it’s my dads birthday, and it gives me a perfect excuse to bring my laptop home and try my new remote access system properly!

Connected through it now, Have both a direct windows fileshare open (//192.168.1.1) and an RDP session to my main PC, both are working perfectly, and the vpn is stable, hasn’t died on me once!

I also found an openVPN client for my windows mobile phone, which works really well through UTMS! So i think in future a web-page listing of all my NAS folders will be on the cards, so I can stream music to my phone on the move etc.

Talking of streaming music though, The upload speed from my uni room is just a little to slow for non-juddery audio, which sucks, but will hopefully be sorted by moving down south :P (somehow doubt I can ask our tech people at uni to give my room higher tube speeds!)

Heard some feedback about my last post regarding this project, Which was cool, as this blog is really just a reference for myself, but it’s also good to know people read it! (seems slightly less pointless that way)

I think the next stage In this remote access system is going to be setting up another public/private key pair for martin, so he can use the vpn tunnel to access his stuff, and to put some access controls on that connection via openvpn to restrict access to just the 2.x subnet.

Hmm.. Also thinking about it, maybe we could establish a new p2p tunnel from my server to martins UNI connection, then via our fast internal house network up to my linux server. Then we could use bonded PPP or BGP to double the upload bandwidth for remote access! (Must ask martin about that!)

Anyway, guests are arriving, and i’m going to go and partake in some Guinness drinking (Happy Paddy’s day!!)

//Matt

(Ps, as a side note, it occurred to me today I could have used a GRE tunnel for the p2p section instead of openvpn. Would there be any advantages to this? I used openvpn as it was handy, but im guessing it’s better due to the encryption!)