if you have these servers offsite, then setting up a firewall or VPN for your intranet is not going to really help. If these servers are Linux based, you can use SSH to handle the connections. SSH Keys.
...how do you still have this job?
my thoughts exactly after reading op.
Don't know networking the slightest bit but have to build a VPN or Firewall? NO PROBLEM!
This should answer your question:
Robert_Nove
They did not expect this issue to come up, I was not meant to be doing something of this nature.
I am an intern in highschool and still learning.
I learned about ports in grade 6 (Australia)...the reason I knew about them is because I wanted to play runescape but it was blocked, so I owned the network, played runescape and left them a note saying don't ever block it again...and they didn't.
When you are home schooled all your life and forced to self-teach yourself it can be difficult.
I have never needed a VPN or Firewall so I know very little about it, that is a subject I will
learn this next school year at my career tech center (which is how I got the internship.)
Thanks for your unconstructive criticism.
And just FYI, I'm still a in high school. I'm not dumb, I simply have not learned this yet.
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sigh GoogleFu is your friend, thanks for wasting others time for something so stupid as this.
You wouldn't believe how many iterations of this post I had to make, and this is the kindest one I could come up with.
Dude, you literally could have said nothing and this post would plummet to the bottom of the internet and nobody would give a shit, but your jimmies got so rustled that you're getting all huffy puffy over some kid asking for help.
Shit, it's like making fun of a fat dude for being at the gym. Sure the kid doesn't sound like he's the most experienced and qualified person for this task, but shit at least he's trying to figure out what he needs to instead of acting like he knows even though he clearly doesn't.
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So what you're saying, is that you've been a jerk since grade 6? Ok.
Could have been a polite, helpful forum member and added to the discussion (or not at all)... but no, you've gotta kick OP to the curb. Maybe instead of suggesting Google, you could share some of that apparently limitless knowledge and experience you have gained since first bypassing your primary school's firewall (lol).
@OP If you can't find a solution on your own, I'd suggest looking around for a network security provider of some sort. You might be able to get someone out to your site to see what your situation is, and give you some quotes/ideas.
The company you're working for really shouldn't be expecting a general IT technician to do this kind of work, let alone an intern - there are others who specialise in this field.
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I am going to try and contact a teacher at my school who knows more about networking then me.
My Great Aunt also set up a more basic version of this so she will show what she did.
But she is in the process of moving and doesn't have it set up atm.
I think I have come up with a solution but I need to try it first.
Thank you for your help!
You're welcome. Best of luck! :)
OP, please contract this work out to someone who knows this. By doing it yourself without the knowledge of someone with even a Net+, this will lead to huge security holes in your company and you will be the person to blame in the event of loss of data or leakage, or worse. It's a huge risk I'm sure your company wouldn't want to take if they knew what they were asking of you.
In the meantime, study for A+ ,Net+ and Sec+
The port number is used for any kind of network communication, it needs a ip address, and a port number.
Some web pages requires you to add this to the address, one of my old router fx. required me to type in http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:2021 or something like that, which means it has a service setup on port 2021.
You can tell your firewall(in this case most likely your router) to forward traffic incoming on the WAN side on a specific port eg. 8081 to another ip address on your network(LAN side) eg. your VPN server.
Imo try googling a bit on port forwarding, the concept is fairly simple and shouldn't pose you to many problems, from my experiences setting up and managing the VPN server is the hardest part, and can be a real pain.