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OpenVPN Bridges
Introduction
We are very exited about a new feature which is now part of MESHdesk as well as APdesk.
With this feature you can bridge one or more of the entry points (or SSIDs) with a OpenVPN tunnel that can sit any place on the Internet.
I can now for instance connect to a SSID in South Africa while it will appear that I am browsing from an IP Address that is located somewhere in Europe or North America.
This feature opens up the door to so many new possibilities but those we leave to your own creative powers.
Our tests have proven that there is not reason for a dramatic drop on bandwidth while going this route, in fact, depending how and where you connect, you might even experience an increase in available bandwidth!
We are sure by now you are in a dire need to check out this feature. Unfortunately the initial setup can be quite involved, but once everything is in place it should run like a Swiss watch.
We will follow a divide and conquer rule and break the tasks up into categories in order to accomplish our goal.
Our Setup
For this document we will configure the following setup.
The Hardware
One Ubuntu 14.04 server with two Ethernet cards and one public IP Address.
Eth1 will have the Public IP Address (198.27.111.78)
Eth0 will be segmented using VLANs.
We will not need any VLAN capable switches.
Another server (can be the same) running the latest SVN of RADIUSdesk
An Access Point with Internet access, running the latest build from SVN of the MESHdesk firmware.
Segmenting Using VLANs
The VPNs
The Captive Portals
Steps Involved
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Configure RADIUSdesk
Configure MESHdesk
Configure APdesk