Here is my situation. I connect to a VPN to use unfiltered internet and to play games online. I have an xbox360 with a wireless adapter. I know it is possible to set up an ad-hoc wireless connection and share and allow internet sharing, however, is it possible to share the connection wirelessly (to my xbox) as I am connected to the VPN? Any help would be greatly appreciated
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
It all depends on how the VPN was setup. VPN can block all local activity, for security reasons. So with the VPN tunnel there is no holes to compromise the secure connection. Having local network and connecting VPN to a remote connection you can merge the 2 as 1. But this is normal done with VPN Endpoint routers on each end. Meaning a connection is established between the 2 routers, making a single network. These routers are not very cheap, and it requires an good uplink speed. All of the tunnel processing is done at the router, so they have a pretty good cpu in them to handle the encryption. The Netgear FVS338 router that I use supports this.
As far as trying to setup a ICS with a VPN (port forward) connection, I do not know if it will work. It may, but have not heard of anyone trying it.
Sharing a VPN connection wirelessly
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by shufly09, Apr 19, 2008.