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We use L2TP/IPSec to VPN into our AWS VPC. Amazon's VPN solutions aren't great, and propping up a VPN endpoint on a micro instance and an elastic IP is fairly e
by billyhoffman 11y ago
We use L2TP/IPSec to VPN into our AWS VPC. Amazon's VPN solutions aren't great, and propping up a VPN endpoint on a micro instance and an elastic IP is fairly easy. Also makes it easier to SSH/RDP/MySQL to instances in your private subnet from trusted developer machines at our office. L2TP/IPSec is built in to modern versions of OS X and Windows (though for Windows you have to tweak hidden settings to work with NAT properly)
- john_oshea 11y agoIf you have time to link to somewhere listing those hidden settings, that would be really helpful.
- billyhoffman 11y agohttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/926179 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/926179 The article mentions Vista and Window Server 2008, but it applies to Windows 7 and Windows 8 as well. There are some Stack Overflow threads as well. For the VPN setup, I largely followed these instructions: http://www.stormacq.com/build-a-private-vpn-server-on-amazons-ec2/ http://www.stormacq.com/build-a-private-vpn-server-on-amazon... There are a few typos in the scripts cited in the article especially around saving the iptables rules. OS X's native VPN client worked out of the box