Help with VPN Client

[budweiser]

Please I need a little help / advice - my brother in United States Coast Guard (24 yrs service) is getting stationed in Saudi Arabia .

He has been informed to set up a VPN client . He has passed this task onto me to help him out while he packs up to leave,

so any and all help / advice is appreciated . Thanks for your time Bud

 

[ekianjo]

Check Pandoralive there is an article about vpn setup (most of the parts in the tutorial are not OS specific).

 

[Linux-SWAT]

VPN is a generic term, what is the type he needs ?

 

[budweiser]

He needs a unristricted , safe, secure connection . like he has here in the USA ..

Alot of military in that area , says it is a must have.. Thanks Bud

 

[rohezal]

I don't want to support the military. Does he need it for personal reasons or for his "job"?

 

[Linux-SWAT]

There's no VPN client without a server, so what's the server ?

 

[budweiser]

Personal account , can i be the server , i Have plenty of bandwith?

 

[skeezix]

There are VPN providers around; for instance, non-USians can use a US VPN service, and thus route their network through the US; this is how non-USians can get US Netflix

That sort of service is pretty inexpensive, and would more or less get your man the US internet, with security, from anywhere. Its like $5 or $10 a month or something.

jeff

edit: here, check this random lifehacker article:

http://lifehacker.com/5935863/five-best-vpn-service-providers

The first one is $7/mo or $40/year .. pretty reasonable, and you can pick your exit node even

 

[Linux-SWAT]

OpenVPN is easy to use and secure.

 

[rohezal]

When it is private just use one of these providers: https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/10463/5-best-cheap-vpns/

There are ready to use client for vpns. If he uses Windows if just use the openvpn client: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html

 

[budweiser]

Thanks for the info , i will start reading ....Bud