IPsec VPN
We now have a new IPsec VPN app for your HDA!
This VPN stack has many advantages, although it still requires two ports to be forwarded from your router to your HDA. These are
500 UDP and 4500 UDP
UDP, not TCP.
Here is how to set up clients for various client operating systems:
- iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod) built-in client
- Windows 7
- Mac OS X built-in client
- Android built-in client, (ICS, i.e. 4.x or later)
The Android (2.x/3.x) OS is known to be broken with respect to IPSec VPN. See here for a manual implementation that should work.
Changing the Secret and/or the Group Name
Optionally, you can change the secret and/or group name.
For that, you have to be able to edit a system file as root.
Become root via ssh or a terminal and then edit this file:
/etc/racoon/psk.txt
This file has two field separated by at least one space. The first one is the Group name and the second is the Secret. Change them , keeping in mind that.
The changes will be picked up automatically a few seconds later. If you want to make sure, perform a:
service racoon restart
Route All IPSEC VPN traffic through IPSEC VPN
After you install IPSEC VPN and configure your router and iPhone correctly, you may find that twitter and facebook are still blocked by some networks.Also google-ing "what is my ip" will report back that you are still on the local network.
It turns out that the Amahi VPN is set to use a split VPN tunnel by default. Here are the steps to direct all traffic through the VPN:
1 - Open a terminal on your hda or ssh in.
2 - go to /etc/racoon (that is spelled correctly BTW)
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cd /etc/racoon
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3 - open racoon.conf with your favorite editor, mine happens to be nano (this needs to be done as route)
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sudo nano racoon.conf
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4 - down arrow to the mode_cfg
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mode_cfg { auth_source system; save_passwd on; network4 10.8.1.1; netmask4 255.255.255.0; pool_size 10; dns4 192.168.1.10; wins4 192.168.1.10; default_domain "Jamahi3.com"; auth_throttle 60; split_network include 198.162.1.0/24 10.100.100.0/24; split_dns "home.com"; banner "/etc/racoon/welcome.txt"; }
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note: I'm going to concentrate on the two lines that I changed: "split_network" and "split_dns".
5 - change split_network from "include" to "local_lan" and delete the 198.162.... range.
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mode_cfg { ~~ split_network local_lan 10.100.100.0/24;
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6 - I also changed split_dns to the name that I changed my home domain to...
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mode_cfg { ~~ split_dns "Jamahi3.com";
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7 - save your work
8 - open up your hda, click on settings>servers and restart the IPSEC server.
Googling "What is My IP" should now report your home VPN. You should then be able to use twitter and facebook through your VPN.
