VPN and Red Hat 6.2 firewall

Hello Group,
I have a Red Hat 6.2 firewall to serve my home network. Recently my
company started allowing us to access the company network using a VPN.
MY firewall is already set to port forwarding for ports, 80, 21, 23,
pcanywhere and have rules to allow other services like ICQ, dial pad and
etc. I tried similar rules for the VPN, using ports 1753 and 500, both
tcp/udp to no success. I looked at the "Linux VPN Masquerade HOWTO" and
did not know where to start.

Does anybody knows of a page where it's shown how to implement the VPN
service in a more "dummy" proof way? I am not too interested in the
science. Right now I am mostly into get it to work since I have to leave
my family without Internet access while I work from home and when I am
done doing a "network restart" does not work right and I have to end up
restarting the Red Hat box every time!

Also, will upgrading the box make it easier? I really hate to upgrade
this box since I only use it for a firewall...

Thanks to all of you,

Fernando Quinones

Is this the right group for this question or is the question too technical?

Fernando Quinones

Fernando Quinones wrote:

> Hello Group,
> I have a Red Hat 6.2 firewall to serve my home network. Recently my
> company started allowing us to access the company network using a VPN.
> MY firewall is already set to port forwarding for ports, 80, 21, 23,
> pcanywhere and have rules to allow other services like ICQ, dial pad
> and etc. I tried similar rules for the VPN, using ports 1753 and 500,
> both tcp/udp to no success. I looked at the "Linux VPN Masquerade
> HOWTO" and did not know where to start.
>
> Does anybody knows of a page where it's shown how to implement the VPN
> service in a more "dummy" proof way? I am not too interested in the
> science. Right now I am mostly into get it to work since I have to
> leave my family without Internet access while I work from home and
> when I am done doing a "network restart" does not work right and I
> have to end up restarting the Red Hat box every time!
>
> Also, will upgrading the box make it easier? I really hate to upgrade
> this box since I only use it for a firewall...
>
> Thanks to all of you,
>
> Fernando Quinones

Fernando Quinones <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a Red Hat 6.2 firewall to serve my home network. Recently my
> company started allowing us to access the company network using a VPN.
> MY firewall is already set to port forwarding for ports, 80, 21, 23,
> pcanywhere and have rules to allow other services like ICQ, dial pad and
> etc. I tried similar rules for the VPN, using ports 1753 and 500, both
> tcp/udp to no success. I looked at the "Linux VPN Masquerade HOWTO" and
> did not know where to start.

You might need to allow protocols 50/51, if your VPN is using IPSEC
(it's using another protocol types, other than tcp(6), nor udp(17)).

--
andrei