Surf outside Internet through VPN

[Andrew Thompson]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:23:57AM -0800, Noah Silverman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to find a way to pass ALL traffic from my laptop THROUGH my office 
> VPN and then out to the Internet.  This is a "road warrior" setup. This 
> gives me a few benefits:  1) I can check my email securely through VPN.  2) 
> No matter where I am, I will always have the external IP of my VPN server 
> when accessing the web.
> 
> I have setup a VPN.  Was able to get it working with either tun or tap 
> interfaces.  That part seems OK.
> 
> Now what??  (I can see and connect to the VPN server with '10.0.8.1' 
> easily.  I can't see or connect to the outside world.)  Do I need to add 
> some kind of special route in the routing table?
> 
> Would this be better as a tun or using a bridge through tap?

Have you considered just using a http/socks proxy?, it would do away with
all the routing magic.

Andrew