Remote access for freenas and transmission

[Smokie]

I also let my machine get a dhcp address and now need to change it. My problem is the machine is on the attic and would like to change it from the Web page.. is this possible? ?

 

[pirateghost]

I also let my machine get a dhcp address and now need to change it. My problem is the machine is on the attic and would like to change it from the Web page.. is this possible? ?

Yes. This is covered in the documentation...

#stayparanoid

 

[enemy85]

In the application for which I use the VPN, performance isn't much of an issue--I'm using it to admin stuff inside my LAN, from outside my LAN. As long as I can get a few tens of kb/sec, it's plenty. If you wanting to use the VPN outbound from your LAN, for example to hide your torrent traffic, or to circumvent GeoIP-based blocking, that's a different scenario. I'd still tend to think that should be done on the router, but it's not a use case I've had a need for, so I haven't thought much about it.

I Just need to administrate my freenas server from outside my lan, but using openvpn installed in a freenas jail gives me really sloooooow performances and i was wondering why i get a so crappy vpn connection. I'm not sure my router can support vpn, i'll have a look and see if i can get a better solution in another way.

IMO, OpenVPN should be a function of the router/firewall--it doesn't make any sense to me to punch a hole through your firewall to reach a VPN server running behind your firewall.

Concerning this point, i thought it wouldn't be a big danger forwarding just a single port, to my openvpn jail IP. At least compared to the fact that in case someone is able to arrive inside, it's just a jail, not directly freenas, and not the router that i'm exposing to the internet.

 

[danb35]

I don't know what to say here--though I favor running the VPN on the router, your server should have lots more horsepower to handle the connection than any sort of consumer router hardware.

As to the router itself, I understand that dd-wrt supports OpenVPN, as do some builds of Tomato. If your router is compatible with either of those, you should be able to make it work.