VPN
Can you use the VPN server to access your home’s internal network? I would like to access files on my NAS server and remote desktop computers via port 3389.
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This is good to know. I connected with the OpenVPN client on my iPad. I can surf the internet but cannot access anything locally. I’m trying the MS RDesktop client and that does not work and cannot connect to my NAS system. I did noticed the VPN IP address is not the same as my local network. Any suggestions?
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I have two homes. one in the US and one in Canada. Could I put a firewalla in both locations to connect the networks together transparently and securely. In addition to having access to the devices (computers, NAS ,,,) I would like to also remote desktop (I am windows) to connect from one machine to the other and I would also like to watch streaming services from my US based computer in Canada using remote Desktop.
Will your devices allow me to do this without additional hardware, or if needed what else. Also which of your devices, including the gold available on indiegogo would be the best for this?
Thanks!
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Depends on your requirement, if you want both sites to see each other devices, you will need to use the site to site VPN. See this article https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023379953-VPN-Client-Beta-
When site to site VPN is enabled, make sure both sides have different networks. (For example, both CAN NOT BE ALL 192.168.1.x; one can be 192.168.1.x and the other is 192.168.2.x)
If you do not need access both ways, the simple client to server VPN is useful. Same document will help you out
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So I connected to my Firewalla VPN the other day from a hotel wifi network. Everything worked perfectly especially as the bandwidth at my home is much faster than was being provided to me at the hotel. But during my 12 hour session, I did see data usage on the VPN network, but no client was shown either during or after the session. I would think that I'd be able to see the client that connected somewhere and not just that data was served through that connection... Am I missing this somewhere?
Also, is there a limit to the number of concurrent VPN connections that can (should be) maintained at one time? Is this configurable?
Thanks!
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What do you mean about the client not shown? Is it the connected client? or you are not sure if your VPN is active?
For the VPN server, there is NO artificial limit on the number of connections. Since our little box is for homes and small businesses, you will likely encounter bandwidth (encryption) limitations before you hit connection limitations.
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I know the VPN was active. I was connected to it on my iPhone from the hotel and could hit my NAS’ private address. But nowhere in the Firewalla app could I find evidence of what client was connected via VPN. I can see that so much data had gone through the VPN but unlike on the guest-LAN, the Firewalla-VPN tab does not have “devices” listed. I would think that I should be able to tie the VPN data transferred to a particular device name and IP address on the VPN subnet.
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The ability to show the number of active VPN connections will be there in the next App release.
And if we are going to provide some level of the client detail, what do you expect to see?
We are able to provide the IP Address and the data transferred of a VPN connection, but currently, it's not quite possible to "tie the VPN data transferred to a particular device name", because even if you are using the same device, every time you establish a new connection (through any WiFi or 4G/5G network), the IP address can be different.
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Okay, I think I am understanding the issue now. In previous VPN setups that I have administered, there was an option to set up a handful of credentials instead of just one set. But I see now that if your implementation only allows a single set of credentials, then there is no way to know who is using it at any one point in time. But if I could set up say three sets of credentials, then I should be able to know which set was being used when there was activity.
But if three members of my family all share the same credentials, then I see the issue. So in the current implementation, perhaps even just to know the source IP from which the VPN was established and maybe an alarm that could go off when there is VPN activity. Just thinking out loud here...
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