Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding - Transparent Op
  • Fantasy Grounds - Port Forwarding and a "transparent" OpenVPN setup
  • General
    • Introduction - F.G.Comms
    • GM's machine barriers
    • Internet connection barriers
    • Some NO-GO Situations
    • VPN solutions
  • Proposed Solution
    • "Transparent" OpenVPN-based Port Forwarding
    • Tools
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Setup process overview
  • Local setup - Step-by-step
    • Step 0 : Preparation
    • Step 1 : OpenVPN + Easy-RSA & "new-PKI"
    • Step 2 : Create your own PKI
    • Step 3 : Setup OpenVPN connections
  • AWS Setup - Click-by-Click
    • Step 4 : Your AWS environment
    • 4.1-Creating the IAM Role
    • 4.2-Choosing the AWS Region
    • 4.3-Creating the S3 bucket
    • 4.4-Virtual Private Cloud - Default VPC
    • 4.5-Creating an AWS Key Pair
    • 4.6-Creating an AWS Security Group
    • 4.7-Filling the bucket
    • 4.8-Building the Launch Template
  • Transfer & First Test
    • Step 5 : Transfer to S3
    • Step 6 : Launch time !
    • Step 7 : Connect, test, fix glitches
    • Step 8 : Destroy/"Terminate" after use
  • Use your server
    • Regular Usage Pattern
  • Simultaneous FG games / 1 VPN Server
    • Lifting the "1 GM at-a-time" restriction
    • FGU vs. FGC networking
    • VPNs for both FGC + FGU (LAN mode)
  • Upgrading our setup for "N-at-a-time", FGC/FGU
    • Untitled
  • Appendixes
    • Acronyms and definitions
    • AWS acronyms
    • AWS admin user + API access key
    • AWS, DNS, DDNS, CRL...
    • Possible (?) developments
  • Links
    • Fantasy Grounds Web
    • Fantasy Grounds Discord
    • FG College Web
    • FG College Discord
    • FG College KB
    • Our "EU" Discord
    • OpenVPN
    • AWS
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AWS acronyms

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AWS

Amazon Web Services : a set of cloud services offered by Amazon, starting at the IaaS level, with more and more PaaS offers appearing over the years.

AZ

Availability Zone : a (set of) datacenter(s) in an AWS Region. All AZs in a region are physically/electrically independent, but linked through VERY high speed physical links. See a nice interactive map at :

EBS

Elastic Block Store : basically your virtual disks in the AWS cloud EBS volume : a "virtual disk" EBS snapshot : a point-in-time image of an EBS volume

EC2

Elastic Cloud Compute : the service providing virtual servers in the AWS cloud EC2 AMI : an EC2 Amazon Machine Image is like a backup of the system disk from which you can create a new virtual server EC2 Instance : a virtual server (you create one or more from an EC2 AMI)

EIP

Elastic IP : a fixed public IPv4 address exclusively reserved for a specific account, in a VPC. Can be free only when attached to a running virtual server = EC2 Instance

IAM

Identity & Access Management : The cross-the-board service behind "all things security-related" in the AWS cloud

Region

S3

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud : a set of virtual networks and devices (gateways, firewalls) defined in an AWS Region for one account.

An AWS Region is a set of interconnected AZs (Availability Zones), all located in a geographical area. See a nice interactive map at :

Simple Storage Service : as the name implies...

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