I want to set up a VPN on a remote server to route all my Internet traffic for privacy reasons. I can set up an incoming connection and connect to it successfully. The problem is, I can just see the remote computer and no other Web sites will open. I want the remote server to act like a NAT. How can I do that?
Note that I don't want to split Internet traffic. I actually want to send all the traffic to the remote server but need to make it relay the traffic.
For the record, my remote server is Windows Web Server 2008 which does not have routing and remote access service.
Clarification
I'm mostly interested in server configuration. I don't have any problems configuring the client. By the way, Windows Web Server 2008 seems to have the same VPN features built in client OSes (like Vista) and specifically, it doesn't include the RRAS console in MMC. I'm also open to suggestions regarding third party PPTP/L2TP daemons available, if they are free.
Best Answer
You were able to create a dial-up VPN connection between Vista and Windows Web Server 2008 without the Network Policy Server role? If so, I'm curious as to what the subnet/IP looked like to the client in that scenario once the tunnel was up.
If you have a VPN up, then you've transferred your problem domain from one of VPN to one of routing. I'm pretty confident that you'll be able to bridge connections using the Web edition and that you can also use Internet Connection Sharing. If not, there are cheap and possibly free "internet sharing" programs available (NAT32).
This assumes that your client machine somehow has an IP on the server's (internal?) network.
Also, when you say Internet traffic, it's possible your definition may include only traffic that is proxy-able. In which case you can shift the domain again from routing to proxying, and use a free proxy server bound to the IP on the other end of the tunnel.