Networking on Marko Apfel

Running OpenVPN on a hosted server and internally on a Rasperry Pi

Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:11:00 +0100

Introduction

Motivation

How about a secure access from outside into the own home network? So we can maintain machines, change configurations, getting files, .. from where ever we are. For this we let a VPN tunnel be established between a local RPi in our network to a hosted server. If this hosted server that offers a web based console we only need a web browser to access our own resources at home.

Network settings for ClearOS in VirtualBox

Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:37:00 +0100

ClearCenter offers an almost ready to go VirtualBox image:

http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/downloads.html

With the first boot it provides a web based configuration GUI via URL

https://10.0.2.15:81/

Per default it is not possible to access this URL from the host machine which runs the VirtualBox virtualization software. So it is necessary to forward the request to the virtualized guest (ClearOS).