[KLUG Members] how can I get around a port block to setup vpn?

[Adam Williams]

> Yes I can use ssh, and telnet, and ftp, and web, and smtp, and dns,
> but not vpn, or icmp (thus no ping or traceroute which I am suppose
> to demo in class).  It is a nat'ed connection too.... 

You mean outbound right?  And there really isn't such a thing as "vpn"; 
there is: PPTP, IPSec, VTUN, L2TP, OpenVPN, etc... all of which have
quite different connection characteristics.  What one(s) have you
tried?  If your internal net is 'NATed you'll definitely need some kind
of agent on the firewall in order to establish a VPN connection.

> (by the way Bruce... as far as reasonable technical conversations
> with these corporate people... they think that anyone at any of the
> schools do not know anything more than turning on a computer..... I
> have tried to have reasonable conversations with them on many things
> and all they say is that they are the only ones that can do anything
> - and this from people that think Linux is going away and that
> everyone will only be using Windows within a couple of years!!!!)

Yea, I've met those kind of people.  "within a couple of years" it isn't
usually Linux that is goes away; it's them.