At the current moment, I 'm lucky enough to live in an appt complex with a small ISP based in to...

[G+_Ben Yanke]

At the current moment, I'm lucky enough to live in an appt complex with a small ISP based in town, and I can get cheap bandwidth (100/10). Because of that ample bandwidth, I run an OpenVPN server on one of my VMs at home, and when I'm away from home, I route all my traffic through it, both for protection, and to let me use RDP and access my NAS.

 

I'll be moving in a few months, and I am guessing my bandwidth will probably drop.

 

I am considering setting up an open VPN server on my DigitalOcean VPS, and then doing another VPN link home from there, so that only the traffic that needs to use my home connection uses it, and everything else hits the net directly from the VPS.

 

Is it possible to do this, and if so, does anyone know of a good guide to walk through the basics of the routing and configuration on this?

[G+_Ben Reese]

Yes, it is possible and Darren did just that on an episode of Hak5 a few months ago. But he was using the official OpenVPN web management which took care of setting up all the static routing. I'm not sure how you would go about doing this manually. ?

 

So... consider this my bookmark for when someone links to a handy tutorial showing exactly how it's done, quick and simple.

[G+_Ben Yanke]

tagging the VPNmaster Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ  since everyone loves networking questions on the show... :)

[G+_Ben Reese]

Didn't Padre say on the last episode that for the show he takes a lot of what he knows from enterprise and brings it to the consumer level? Seems about what we're trying to do here. I'm sure gateways and static routing is simple - just nothing I have experience with really.

[G+_Ben Yanke]

yeah, exactly, Ben Reese . I am fairly sure a few static routes would do it, from my high-level understanding, but I lack the practical know how (no pun intended) to implement it.

 

I've got the high-level knowledge, now I just need to learn how to use it.

[G+_Jason Perry]

well conciser this my bookmark.

I have been considering this myself and would love to hear what Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ has to say. I watched Hak5's episode and it is a really solid base but would love to hear about creating multiple routes out of a VPN set up on DigitalOcean.