28 May
2012
28 May
'12
3:13 p.m.
Hello Andrew,
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 01:53:36PM +0100, Andrew Gilmour wrote:
is there a way of setting up a [VPN] using just a
single IP, or
what costs are involved in acquiring a handful of IP's?
While I suppose it is possible to have both your VPS and a VPN
sharing the same public IP, you'll find it much easier to use a
different public IP for the VPN.
If you ask for one additional IPv4 for use as a VPN endpoint then I
would consider that a good technical justification and would not
charge for this¹. Multiple IPv4 for end-user VPNs would be harder to
justify (probably should be NAT'ing them).
Purpose 2 : My ISP quite frequently has difficulty
with its routing to the
North American RIFT Servers... but never to me good old VPS,
so I'm thinking in these occasions it may provide a (possibly somewhat
imperfect) bypass to that problem when it happens.
Just as long as you realise that you'll have the latency between you
and the VPS and then the latency between the VPS and these other
servers.
Purpose 3 : Minecraft Pocket Edition. I introduced my
nephew to minecraft
on his Archos tablet, unlike the desktop versions, it only supports LAN
games... Im thinking if it was on the same VPN as me, it would probably
let us play a LAN game together, even with him being in Aberdeen, and me
being on Skye?
This sounds unlikely to work.
Cheers,
Andy
¹ Currently we charge a one-off administrative fee for assigning
additional IPs which covers the back and forth required to arrive
at a technical justification.
Soon, RIPE's supply of IPv4 addresses will run out and inevitably
we will need to charge a recurring fee for every IPv4 address
beyond the one that comes with the VPS, just to prevent customers
sitting on addresses they no longer need.
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