PFSENSE w/ UDP BROADCAST ENABLED, MULTI-SITE USD100
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Me and my best friend each have a LAN gaming center, and long before I came across pfSense. After reading alot about pfSense features and I thought of running VPN between the two centers (since each of us have 20 PCs each, VPN would make us have 40 PCs!). pfSense is simple to setup and have tonnes of god-like features. Successfully building the tunnel, one thing that is bothering the "perfection" is that; VPN tunnels doesnt broadcast UDP packets, which generally used by games to broadcast their servers.
Since I'm not that good in Linux and I have basic knowledge in networking, following such workaround is too much work for me http://non-standard.net/freebsd/game-vpn/game-vpn.html. I have seen few places running this VPN and it works :(
Basically, what I want is games created on either side can be seen and played! Also this feature have to support multiple sites! (for future just in case)! Urgent~ thx! I'll be checking the forums thread frequently.
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Check out http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Setting_up_OpenVPN_with_pfSense
Once you have the tunnels running, proceed with http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Setting_up_OpenVPN_with_pfSense#Advanced_Hackery
I believe the recent snapshots no longer exhibit the kernel issues that are mentioned in the document.
Bonus points if you update the wiki to note this! :)
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i'll try it out… but i need a really hassle-free setup, im a total newbie to linux.. the reason i choose pfsense is because its easy to implement and monitor. I'm talking to several gaming centers as well, they seems to be interested and willing to add more to the bounty if something easier to configure comes out.
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i'll try it out… but i need a really hassle-free setup, im a total newbie to linux.. the reason i choose pfsense is because its easy to implement and monitor. I'm talking to several gaming centers as well, they seems to be interested and willing to add more to the bounty if something easier to configure comes out.
It's not Linux, it's FreeBSD.
And sorry, "add more to the bounty if…" won't raise additional interest unless the money is actually posted here. We already had lots of false promised money that never was payed or appeared after a feature was finished. So for now it still needs to attract a developer who is satisfied with $100 for that feature ;)
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If you raise the bounty i'll be interested on this!
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Read OpenVPN documentation and setup a tunnel using a TAP interface instead of TUN. I've been doing this for several customers for a while now. I use pfSense for the firewalling and other features but everything I do with OpenVPN is done at the command line (excluding 1 point to point tunnel I have going on). I admit it, switched (tap) vpns don't seem to scale well, and the OpenVPN documentation will tell you this, but currently, I have around 7 customers on one tap OpenVPN server with probably 5-6 machines at each location.
If you want a VPN that acts just like a switch, go tap.