En:pvm:internet

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Internet Access

Internet access will be available by using our VPN. To get a vpn account please follow the VPN installation guide.

VPNC

The vpn client required to access our network is already preinstalled. Open the commandline and enter the following commands to start a VPN connection:

~$ sudo vpnc
[sudo] password for ptw: enterYourAccountPassword

 Enter username for 131.220.242.5: enterYourUserName

 Enter password for ptw@131.220.242.5: enterYourVPNPassword

 VPNC started in background (pid: 1337)

To verify that your VPN connection is up and running:

~$ ifconfig -a
tun0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
         inet addr:131.220.243.228  P-t-P:131.220.243.228  Mask:255.255.255.255
         UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1412  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:500  
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Static Routes

Important: Please consider the notes below about the network connectivity of your PVM.

Once your VPN connection is up and running you may experience loss of connectivity to your VM. This occurs because the main IP Address will change to the VPN Address.

To avoid a loss of connectivity we preconfigured static routes in:

/etc/network/interfaces

...
  up route add -net 131.220.4.0/24   gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0
  up route add -net 131.220.5.0/24   gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0
  up route add -net 131.220.8.0/24   gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0
  up route add -net 131.220.240.0/24 gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0
  up route add -net 131.220.152.0/24  gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0 
  up route add -net 131.220.155.0/24  gw 10.5.5.1 dev eth0

If you access your PVM from one of those subnets your network traffic will be routed directly and not via VPN, so that you may safely enable or disable your VPN without loosing current network connections to your PVM.