Hello!
I am about to travel to a country where internet access is highly censored & monitored, and I would like to setup a VPN server to protect my communications. I realise there are commercial methods to do this, but I want to configure it myself so I know it's safe to use.
I have a single Windows 2008 R2 server hosted in the US, and have configured the RRAS service. I can connect to it from the client laptop successfully, and I can access some resources on the server from the client (I say some, because I don't have file access working yet, but presume that's a firewall issue that I can fix later). So far, so good.
However I have a problem I need help with. I cannot access the internet through the server. On googling the issue, most people just go with split-tunnelling (i.e. changing the client-side vpn settings to not using the server's gateway) - but of course that is not an option in my case as it would not give me protected internet.
I think from what I have read that I just need to configure certain static routes on the server to get this to work - but what I have tried so far has not worked. Your assistance would be appreciated.
Here are the details - please let me know if there is more info needed. Thanks again for your help.
(x's used to protect the guilty)
Server's public IP: 216.18.210.x
Server's default gateway (provided & controlled by the hosting company): 216.18.x.1
I have configured RRAS to use a pool of local IP addresses. Note that there is no private LAN per se, as it is just one single server with one NIC & one public IP.
Server: 192.168.100.1
Client: 192.168.100.2
So I think I need to provide a static route to solve this - but need advice on which settings to use.
Thanks,
Mike